Kira Hall | University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
1.Introduction
2. Gender in the Hindi language system
2.1 Grammatical gender: Assignment and agreement
2.2 Generic masculines
2.3 Gender reversal: Terms of endearment and insult
3. Uses of the gender system by Hindi-speaking hijras
3.1 Language in hijra socialization
3.2 The exploitation of grammatical gender in everyday hijra
conversation
3.3 The use of masculine self-reference
4. Conclusions
Appendix
Notes
References
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