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  • Don't Touch my Projectile: Gender Bias and Stereotyping in Syntactic Examples

  • Monica Macaulay, Colleen Brice
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 73 / Issue 4 / December 1997
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 798-825

  • This article presents the results of two studies which show that gender bias and stereotyping are widespread in the example sentences of syntax textbooks. Results from both studies indicate that little has changed over the past twenty-five years: virtually all of the authors favor male-gendered NPs as subjects and agents and regularly stereotype both genders. Throughout the paper we make reference to the LSA guidelines for nonsexist usage, pointing out the need for such guidelines, and highlighting the gaps in the current version.

  • The Paradox of Sign Language Morphology

  • Irit Meir, Mark Aronoff, Wendy Sandler
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 81 / Issue 2 / June 2005
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 301-344

  • Sign languages have two strikingly different kinds of morphological structure: sequential and simultaneous. The simultaneous morphology of two unrelated sign languages, American and Israeli Sign Language, is very similar and is largely inflectional, while what little sequential morphology we have found differs significantly and is derivational. We show that at least two pervasive types of inflectional morphology, verb agreement and classifier constructions, are iconically grounded in spatiotemporal cognition, while the sequential patterns can be traced to normal historical development. We attribute the paucity of sequential morphology in sign languages to their youth. This research both brings sign languages much closer to spoken languages in their morphological structure and shows how the medium of communication contributes to the structure of languages.

  • Typological feature analysis models linguistic geography

  • Mark Donohue, Bronwen Whiting, Simon Musgrave, Søren Wichmann
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 87 / Issue 2 / June 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. 369-383

  • Dunn and colleagues (2008) describe and exemplify the use of sophisticated analyses of abstract structural features to reconstruct language histories. The techniques that they use do show some clustering in the groups of languages that they examine; Dunn et al. state that they ‘tend to favor a phylogenetic origin for the signal of relatedness’ (p. 748), and that the results of their test case ‘show a close degree of correspondence to the existing linguistic classification based on sound-meaning correspondences’ (p. 747). We argue that a more parsimonious explanation for the results obtained by Dunn et al.'s methodology is that it accurately maps linguistic geography, the network of contact and diffusion that postdates a proto-language, in most cases corresponding to geographic distance.

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