Swedish. Linguistic and public attitudes towards gender in Swedish

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

References

Published online: 10 April 2003
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.11.18hor