Gender based language systems

Lera Boroditsky, call your office

March 9, 2011 @ 5:32 pm

Dinosaur Comics for 3/9/2011:

(As usual, click on the image for a larger version.)


Just to avoid any hint of anti-Indo-European stereotyping here, the WALS world map of number of linguistic genders:



And for Sex-based vs. Non-sex-based Gender Systems:

Source: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3019