Czech. Communicating gender in Czech

Čmejrková, Svĕtla

doi:10.1075/impact.11.06cme

In:Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 11] 2003
► pp. 27–57

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Czech. Communicating gender in Czech

Svĕtla Čmejrková | The Czech Language Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

Published online: 10 April 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.11.06cme

1.Introduction

2.Gender in Czech

2.1Grammatical gender

2.2Lexical gender

2.3Epicene nouns

2.3.1Masculine epicenes

2.3.2Feminine epicenes

2.3.3Neuter epicenes

2.4Double gender nouns

2.5Nominalised adjectives

2.5.1Nominalised adjectives of the type dospívající (m/f) ‘adolescent’

2.5.2Nominalised adjectives of the type dospělý/dospělá (m/f) ‘adult’

2.6Word-formation

2.6.1The derivation of feminine personal nouns

2.6.2Compounding

3.Asymmetries and lexical gaps

4.Masculine generics

5.Achieving female visibility in Czech

6.Variability, language critique and language politics

7.Conclusion

Notes

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