‘The interrelation between social gender and grammatical gender: A novel socio-theoretical approach’

本研究的主要目的是分析跨语言的社会性别和语法性别之间的相互关系。我们要研究的主要问题是：在一个特定的社会中，社会性别是如何影响语法性别的使用的？ 本研究将继续沿着以往语言与社会关系研究的道路，特别是社会语言学和语言社会学。它将为性别研究提供一种新的方法论途径，并将使两个不同的学科相互关联：社会学（“性别社会学”框架）和理论语言学（生成框架“分布式形态学”）。这个跨学科项目的预期结果将引起理论语言学家、语言类型学家、语言人类学家、语言领域专家、语言教育家、社会语言学家和社会学家以及对性别感兴趣的公众的兴趣。

The main goal of this research is to analyze the interrelation between social gender and grammatical gender across languages. The main question that will be investigated is: How does the social gender as established in a given society affect the use of grammatical gender? This research will continue along the path laid out in previous studies on relations between language and society, most notably sociolinguistics and sociology of language. It will present a novel methodological approach to the study of gender and it will interrelate two different disciplines: sociology (the framework ‘sociology of gender’) and theoretical linguistics (the generative framework ‘Distributed Morphology’). The anticipated results of this interdisciplinary project will be of interest to theoretical linguists, language typologists, linguistic anthropologists, language-area specialists, language educators, sociolinguists, and sociologists, as well as the general public interested in gender.