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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/the-gendered-implicature/
SUMMARY:The gendered implicature
DESCRIPTION:Grammatical gender languages (Stahlberg et al. 2007) mark gende
 r on several linguistic items\, including pronouns\, nouns and their agree
 ment targets (e.g. articles and adjectives). While grammatical gender is n
 ot always semantically motivated (e.g. in the case of inanimate nouns)\, &
 ldquo\;there is always a semantic core to the assignment system (Aksenov 1
 984: 17-18).&rdquo\; (Corbett 1991: 8). In many languages\, this core is c
 onstituted by reference to humans: the grammatical gender of personal noun
 s (and\, consequently\, of its agreement targets) depends on their referen
 t&rsquo\;s gender. However\, as observed by Corbett (1991: 218)\, in some 
 cases it is impossible for the noun (and its agreement targets) to reflect
  their referent&rsquo\;s gender. This might happen for different reasons: 
 the referent is unknown\, thus their gender cannot be determined\; the ref
 erent is generic\, hence it is impossible to ascertain the referent&rsquo\
 ;s gender given that there is no specific referent involved\; finally\, th
 e referent might be a group of people of different genders\, so it&rsquo\;
 s impossible to determine a unique gender for the noun to correspond to. I
 n these cases\, some languages use one of the available grammatical gender
  forms. For example\, in Italian (but also in Spanish\, German\, and Frenc
 h\, among others)\, the masculine is used in all these cases by convention
 . That is\, although its semantic core is tied to reference to men\, the m
 asculine is used even for unknown referents\, who can turn out to be women
  or non-binary people\; generic referents\, so it should be applicable to 
 anyone regardless of their gender\; and to mixed-gender groups\, thus it h
 as to be able to refer also to the group members of genders other than the
  masculine. In this talk\, I will investigate what enables the masculine f
 orm to work in these cases\, using Italian as a case study. To address thi
 s research question\, I&rsquo\;ll apply the linguistic tests for presuppos
 ition and implicature. Based on the results\, I&rsquo\;ll argue that mascu
 line forms in these languages defeasibly implicate that they also refer to
  women.&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:Seminari de Filosofia UB
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