Interesting, where do you intend to go with this? Why not just ask people to categorize words for you and then see if you can make any sense out of it.
If a butterfly is feminine, I wonder what gender a caterpillar is? Is there a sexual metamorphosis? The gender that words have in other languages may not help you much. Have you any idea how words have come to have genders in many languages -- I don't. Consider the following: German "Fraulein" -- a single woman, gender = neuter. Latin "virilitas" -- manhood or virility, gender = feminine. Any linguists out there than explain such silliness to a down-home boy who hasn't a clue? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858-4353 Voice: 252-328-4102 Fax: 252-328-6283 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marie Helweg-Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 4:25 PM Subject: Masculine/feminine words? Hi all I'm looking for a categorization scheme for determining if words (not traits) are feminine or masculine. For example, you might think of "butterfly" as feminine and "slug" as masculine but I need some sort of categorizing scheme for putting nouns into either feminine, masculine or neutral categories. All the research I've found so far (google and psychinfo plus various gender texts) seem to focus on traits (lots of references to Bem) not nouns but that must be done by someone?! Marie -- ********************************************* Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Dickinson College, P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 Office: (717) 245-1562, Fax: (717) 245-1971 Webpage: www.dickinson.edu/~helwegm ********************************************* --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
