Gender across languages

1. Aims and scope of “Gender across languages”

2. Gender classes as a special case of noun classes

2.1 Classifier languages

2.2 Noun class languages

3. Categories of gender

3.1 Grammatical gender

3.2 Lexical gender

3.3 Referential gender

3.4 “False generics”: Generic masculines and male generics

3.5 Social gender

4. Gender-related structures

4.1 Word-formation

4.2 Agreement

4.3 Pronominalization

4.4 Coordination

5. Gender-related messages

5.1 Address terms

5.2 Idiomatic expressions and proverbs

5.3 Female and male discourse

6. Language change and language reform

7. Conclusion

Notes

References

• Affiliations: 1: University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 2: University of Munich, Germany