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Motschenbacher, Heiko. 2010. Female-as-norm (FAN) : A typology of female and feminine generics. In Motschenbacher, Heiko, Susanne Mühleisen and Markus Bieswanger, eds. Language in its Socio-Cultural Context: New Explorations in Gendered, Global and Media Uses. Peter Lang. pp. 35–67.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | generic masculine | grammatical gender | normativity

Annotation

Many languages show structures that sketch out male people as the norm (male / masculine generics). This article discusses various phenomena across languages in which - in contrast to the cross-linguistically dominant pattern - female or feminine forms are used generically.