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Publication details [#51011]

Upadhyay, Shiv R. 2009. The sociolinguistic variation of grammatical gender agreement in Nepali. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (3) : 564–585.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | grammar1 | language and society | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Nepali

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study argues that the Nepali subject–verb gender agreement rule may have lost its obligatory status and that Nepali, lead by female and young speakers in the use of nonstandard language forms, may be evolving towards a gender-neutral language.