Syntactic and cognitive issues in investigating gendered coreference

This paper presents a framework for how the multifaceted nature of “gender” (human and linguistic) interacts with grammatical operations such as coreference dependency formation. It frames the question through the lens of English, in which it focuses on how personal names and referents who identify...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Glossa (London) Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 1 - 27
Main Author:	Ackerman, Lauren
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Ubiquity Press 25-10-2019 Open Library of Humanities
Subjects:	Cognition & reasoning coreference English language Experimental psychology features gender Gender identity Grammatical gender Language patterns Linguistics Non-binary gender Onomastics Personal names pronouns Psychology Sex roles Sociolinguistics Syntax
Online Access:	Get full text
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Description
Summary:	This paper presents a framework for how the multifaceted nature of “gender” (human and linguistic) interacts with grammatical operations such as coreference dependency formation. It frames the question through the lens of English, in which it focuses on how personal names and referents who identify as nonbinary can provide insight into the conceptual representations of gender. Additional data from a variety of modern languages supports a model of how gender might be cognitively represented such that the observed linguistic patterns are available. I propose a three-tiered model of gender that unites grammatical, cognitive, social, and biological aspects and describes how implications of this model might be tested in future work.
ISSN:	2397-1835 2397-1835
DOI:	10.5334/gjgl.721