Gender in Pronouns

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jun 10 05:23:21 EDT 2002


At 10:14 PM -0400 6/9/02, Harry W. Jones wrote:
>Dear Carl,
>
>I think I understand what you are saying. That is, that the
>context determines whither a pronoun is translated in a
>biological sense and that the gender of the pronoun has nothing
>to do with it. Am I correct?

(1) Right: the gender of the pronoun bears no necessary relationship to
biological gender; the grammatical gender of a pronoun, adjective or
participle is determined by the grammatical gender of the noun upon which
it depends.
(2) Context may justify a translator in indicating biological gender in
translation where the referent is clearly a male or female person or animal.
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Carl W. Conrad
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