Swedish. Linguistic and public attitudes towards gender in Swedish

Hornscheidt, Lann

doi:10.1075/impact.11.18hor

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. 339–368

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Swedish. Linguistic and public attitudes towards gender in Swedish

Lann Hornscheidt | Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany

Published online: 10 April 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.11.18hor

1.Introduction

2.Grammatical gender and agreement

3.Personal nouns

3.1Nouns with lexical gender

3.2Gender-indefinite personal nouns

3.3Word-formation

3.3.1Compounding

3.3.2Derivation

4.Pronominalisation

4.1Grammatical agreement relations

4.2Semantic agreement relations

4.2.1Semantic agreement: Common vs. neuter gender

4.2.2Semantic agreement: Female vs. male pronouns

5.Other possibilities for gender-specific personal reference

6.Language change under the influence of the feminist movement

6.1Neutralisation

6.2Overt gender-specification

6.3Pronouns

6.4Adjectival modification

7.Public attitudes towards feminist language change in the 1990s

8.Conclusion

Notes

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