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Stanley, Julia Penelope – 1978
Drawing on recent research on sexism in English and the ways in which social forces affect language structure, this paper shows how prescriptive statements about English have been incorporated into linguistic grammars as descriptions of language. It is claimed that Chomsky's "universal grammar" is masculinist and that it is contradicted…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar
