Hebrew. Gender switch in Modern Hebrew

Tobin, Yishai

doi:10.1075/impact.9.13tob

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 9] 2001
► pp. 177–198

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Hebrew. Gender switch in Modern Hebrew

Yishai Tobin | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Published online: 9 October 2001

https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.9.13tob

1.Introduction: Historical and sociolinguistic background 2. Grammatical gender in Modern Hebrew 2.1 Masculine and feminine nouns 2.2 Gender agreement 2.3 Generic masculines 3. “Call me Yigal”: Gender switch, gender reversal, cross addressing 4. The implications of grammatical gender for language use Notes References

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