Grammar and Gender

Grammar and Gender
Author: Dennis E. Baron
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780300038835

Traces the history of sexual bias in the English language, examines attempts at reform, and discusses new words coined to reduce sexism in language

Universal Grammar in Second-Language Acquisition

Universal Grammar in Second-Language Acquisition
Author: Margaret Thomas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2004-07-31
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134388543

This book discusses how scholars in the west have conceived that human languages share important properties, and how westerners have understood the nature of second or foreign language learning.