Ebook: Transatlantic perspectives on late modern English

This contribution explores the use of the formal resources of English (third-person singular pronouns in anaphora, sex-sensitive collocations) for "assigned gender" in a corpus of letters written by settlers of the Great Plains of the United States in the last decades of the nineteenth century. The textual work is introduced by a discussion of significant theoretical aspects of the grammatical category of gender and of certain methodological issues - particularly "Units of Anaphoric Reference". Although assigned gender has been approached from a general perspective, particular attention has be.  Read more...