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Gender Across Languages: Volume 4
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Heiko Motschenbacher
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 36] 2015
► pp. 27–48

Some new perspectives on gendered language structures

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Published online: 9 April 2015
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