Beschreibung
The author analyses gender assignment to animal nouns. She looks at grammarians’ treatment of gender in present-day English and surveys a corpus of and the .
Autorenportrait
Ludmila Zemková is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice. She studied at the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno. Her research interests include the linguistic concept of gender and gender in present-day English.
Inhalt
Contents: Gender – Animal nouns – Present-day English – – – Gender markers – Gender assignment.
