Greek. Women, gender and Modern Greek

1.Introduction

2.Grammatical gender

2.1Grammatical gender and inflection

2.2Personal nouns: Gender assignment

2.3Agreement and coordination

2.4Proper names

3.Gender asymmetries

3.1Generic use of the masculine gender

3.2Lexical and pragmatic asymmetries

4.Feminine occupational terms

4.1The problem

4.2The current situation

4.3Two exploratory studies

5.Language and gender in Greece: The public debate and tendencies of change

5.1Language critique

5.2Tendencies of language change

5.3The contribution of linguistics

6.Conclusion

Notes

References

• Affiliations: 1: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece