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2181:"firefighter", "mailman" to "mail carrier", and so on. At the root of this contentiousness may have been backlash against the English language's shift from "grammatical gender" to "natural gender" during the early Modern era, coinciding with the spread of institutional prescriptive grammar rules in English schools. These theories have been challenged by some researchers, with attention given to additional possible social, ethnic, economic, and cultural influences on language and gender. The impact on mainstream language has been limited, but these theories have led to lasting changes in practice. 35: 585:, remarkably opaque: that is, one often could not know the gender of a noun by its meaning or by the form of the word; this was especially true for nouns referencing inanimate objects. Learners would have had to simply memorize which word has which gender. Although nouns referring to human males were generally masculine and for the most part words for human females were feminine, as Charles Jones noted, "it is with those nouns which show explicit female reference that the sex specifying function of the gender classification system appears to break down, 2130:
in that they are either masculine or feminine. Specifically, if an inanimate count noun denotes a mobile entity, then it is feminine; otherwise such a noun is masculine. Such a gender assignment is similar to but slightly different from that in Wessex Vernacular English. In Wessex Vernacular English,
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In short, inanimate objects are frequently referred to by gendered pronouns, and, conversely, there exist nouns referring to people having a grammatical gender that does not match their natural gender. Nonetheless, in Old English, pronouns may follow natural gender rather than grammatical gender in
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refer to inanimate things (and non-human animals). Since these pronouns function on a binary gender system, distinguishing only between animate and inanimate entities, this suggests that English has a second gender system which contrasts with the primary gender system. Relative and interrogative
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for inanimate objects is not very frequent in Standard Modern English, it is fairly widespread in some varieties of English. Gender assignment to inanimate nouns in these dialects is sometimes fairly systematic. For example, in some dialects of southwest England, masculine pronouns are used for
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theorists, particularly in France, brought wider attention to gender-neutrality theory, and the concept of supporting gender equality through conscious changes to language. Debates touched on such issues as changing the term "stewardess" to the gender-neutral "flight attendant", "fireman" to
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referring to ships, machines, and countries (see below). Another manifestation of natural gender that continues to function in English is the use of certain nouns to refer specifically to persons or animals of a particular sex:
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In principle, animals are triple-gender nouns, being able to take masculine, feminine and neuter pronouns. However, animals viewed as less important to humans, also known as ‘lower animals’, are generally referred to using
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Gender loss began in the north of England; the south-east and the south-west Midlands were the most linguistically conservative regions, and Kent retained traces of gender in the 1340s.
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This feature is stigmatized, widely regarded as a lower class or incorrect way of speaking. Nonetheless, one may find such a gender assignment less counterintuitive as nouns such as
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Apart from pronouns, gender can be marked in personal names and certain titles. Many words in modern English refer specifically to people or animals of a particular sex.
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are usually applied to animals when personification and/or individuation occurs. Personification occurs whenever human attributes are applied to the noun. For example:
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such as "Jane" and words like "daughter", which are normally paired with gendered pronouns even if the speaker does not know the person being referred to. Linguist
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grammatical category. He argued that gender as a property inherent in nouns (rather than in their referents) is not entirely absent from modern English, citing
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are used by some speakers when referring to ships (and more uncommonly some airplanes and analogous machinery), to churches, and to nation states and islands.
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individuated or countable matter, such as iron tools, while the neuter form is used for non-individuated matter, such as liquids, fire and other substances.
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rather than their sex assigned at birth. Referring to transgender people using natural gender pronouns according to their sex deduced at birth, known as
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While inflectional reduction seems to have been incipient in the English language itself, some theories suggest that it was accelerated by contact with
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with the noun they modified. Also the nouns themselves followed different declension patterns depending on their gender. Moreover, the third-person
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Pronoun agreement is generally with the natural gender of the referent (the person or thing denoted) rather than simply the antecedent (a noun or
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Certain gender-indicative suffixes denoting humans eliminate any practical distinction between natural gender and grammatical gender (examples:
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well, though the name be Hercules, or Henry, or the Prince." Various folk theories on the origin include the tradition of naming of ships after
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of the 13th century was in transition to the loss of a gender system. One element of this process was the change in the functions of the words
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Certain words' spellings are indicative of their original grammatical genders, which may not correspond to their natural genders, for example
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to distinguish married and unmarried women, respectively) may also be discouraged on similar grounds. For more details and examples, see
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savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
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Old English had multiple generic nouns for "woman" stretching across all three genders: for example, in addition to the neuter
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There are many popular satirical reasons and collections thereof, such as "it takes a lot of paint to keep her good-looking".
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Other English pronouns are not subject to male/female distinctions, although in some cases a distinction between
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For example, the U.S. Navy history office says it was due to ships giving life and sustenance like a mother.
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These rules also apply to other triple-gender nouns, including ideas, inanimate objects, and words like
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largely does not have grammatical gender. Modern English lacks grammatical gender in the sense of all
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When the referent is a person of unknown or unspecified sex, several different options are possible:
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when referring to a person of unknown gender. Certain traditional feminine forms of nouns (such as
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Nouns seem to possess a well defined but covert system of grammatical gender. We may call a noun
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By the 11th century, the role of grammatical gender in Old English was beginning to decline: the
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Pronominal Gender in English. A Study of English Varieties from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
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Pronominal Gender in English: A Study of English Varieties form a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
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may use masculine (rather than neuter) pronouns with non-animate referents, as can be seen in
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An example of an English word that has retained gender-specific spellings is the noun-form of
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a non-human count noun (be it animate or not) is regarded as masculine, for example the word
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had almost completed the shift away from grammatical gender, and Modern English retains no
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Compare the similar Early Modern English formation which is typified in the prose of the
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Many words that retain their feminine endings refer to geographical regions (for example
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Gender neutrality in English became a growing area of interest among academics during
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of objects is usually done for poetic effect or to show strong emotional attachment.
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is also used in the interrogative for people in some phrases such as, "Who is it?".
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Gendered pronouns are occasionally applied to sexless objects in English, such as
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can be used as a relative pronoun even when the antecedent is inanimate), while
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on the front of the ship (though men and animals are also used as figureheads),
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Postructuralism and Feminism: The Interplay between Gender, Language and Power
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Glossary of Nautical Terms (As used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries)
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Inanimate count nouns in Newfoundland Vernacular English differ from those in
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some cases. For details of the declension patterns and pronoun systems, see
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Hall, Robert A. (1951). "Sex Reference and Grammatical Gender in English".
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Language, gender and sexism: an overview of English and Italian languages
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Usage in English has evolved with regards to an emerging preference for
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Gender across languages: the linguistic representation of women and men
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pronouns do not encode number. This is shown in the following example:
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One common use of metaphorical gender is referring to named ships as
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Specifically named animals are an example of individuation, such as
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became better known in academic circles. By the 1960s and 1970s,
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was treated as either masculine, feminine, or neuter, existed in
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can be referred to by the feminine pronoun in Standard English.
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which the pronoun replaces). For example, one might say either
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and airplanes, and sometimes with countries. An example is in
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had a system of grammatical gender similar to that of modern
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Features of gender-neutral language in English may include:
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depending on the pronouns which it selects in the singular.
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as a third-person singular instead of the default generic
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when referring to a person of unspecified sex (see under
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Other pronouns which show a similar distinction include
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period), in materials translated from French, which has
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Whorf, Benjamin Lee (1945). 'Grammatical Categories',
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and inanimate referents is made. For example, the word
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are chosen according to the natural gender of their
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came to be used generally as a definite article and
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centuries: for almost a century Norse constituted a
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Others accept 1035: 1018: 997: 980: 963: 946: 919: 902: 885: 868: 851: 834: 817: 800: 769: 752: 735: 718: 701: 684: 667: 650: 636:"brother's wife" 633: 616: 604:Modern cognates 592: 591: 588: 427:, whereby every 413: 406: 399: 381:Grammar disputes 377:Double negatives 374: 37: 18: 17: 3260: 3259: 3255: 3254: 3253: 3251: 3250: 3249: 3245:English grammar 3230: 3229: 3228: 3222: 3199: 3178: 3173: 3163: 3161: 3160:on 2 March 2020 3146: 3139: 3130: 3128: 3119: 3118: 3114: 3106: 3102: 3094: 3090: 3083: 3069: 3065: 3055: 3053: 3041: 3037: 3027: 3025: 3018: 3010: 3006: 2994: 2986: 2975: 2966: 2964: 2955: 2954: 2950: 2940: 2938: 2936: 2912: 2908: 2898: 2896: 2886: 2882: 2872: 2870: 2855: 2851: 2841: 2839: 2835: 2824: 2820: 2819: 2815: 2805: 2803: 2794: 2793: 2789: 2782: 2761: 2757: 2747: 2743: 2735: 2731: 2723: 2719: 2712: 2708: 2701: 2697: 2681: 2677: 2660: 2656: 2646: 2644: 2635: 2634: 2627: 2616: 2587: 2579: 2575: 2540:American Speech 2536: 2529: 2520: 2516: 2506: 2504: 2483: 2477: 2470: 2459: 2455: 2448: 2430: 2423: 2412: 2408: 2400: 2396: 2389: 2371: 2362: 2354: 2350: 2342: 2338: 2323: 2309: 2296: 2279: 2275: 2271: 2266: 2248:English grammar 2244: 2158: 2152: 1982: 1898: 1883: 1877: 1787: 1781: 1739:gender identity 1719:Chosen pronouns 1716: 1674:English Grammar 1601:personification 1577: 1492: 1289: 1283: 1220: 1118: 1070:and the neuter 1031: 1014: 993: 976: 966:"female friend" 959: 942: 930: 915: 898: 881: 864: 854:"married woman" 847: 830: 813: 796: 784: 765: 748: 731: 714: 697: 680: 663: 646: 629: 619:"married woman" 612: 586: 541: 535: 417: 388: 387: 383: 379: 375: 370: 369: 364: 356: 355: 351: 347: 343: 338: 328: 327: 326: 322: 318: 314: 310: 306: 302: 290: 280: 279: 278: 274: 270: 266: 262: 258: 256:Irregular verbs 254: 250: 231: 212: 210:Auxiliary verbs 207: 197: 196: 195: 191: 187: 172: 161: 157: 153: 149: 145: 141: 137: 133: 122: 118: 114: 110: 106: 95: 91: 86: 76: 75: 74: 63: 52: 47: 27:English grammar 12: 11: 5: 3258: 3248: 3247: 3242: 3227: 3226: 3220: 3203: 3197: 3179: 3177: 3174: 3172: 3171: 3137: 3112: 3100: 3088: 3081: 3063: 3035: 3004: 2973: 2963:. 22 June 2011 2961:grammarist.com 2948: 2934: 2906: 2880: 2849: 2813: 2787: 2780: 2755: 2741: 2729: 2717: 2706: 2695: 2675: 2654: 2643:. October 2017 2625: 2585: 2573: 2552:10.2307/453074 2546:(3): 170–172. 2527: 2514: 2468: 2453: 2446: 2421: 2406: 2394: 2387: 2360: 2348: 2336: 2321: 2294: 2272: 2270: 2267: 2265: 2262: 2261: 2260: 2255: 2250: 2243: 2240: 2224: 2223: 2204: 2193: 2154:Main article: 2151: 2148: 1981: 1978: 1897: 1894: 1876: 1873: 1859:Nouns such as 1828:lost his head 1786: 1785:Other pronouns 1783: 1715: 1712: 1666:Middle English 1576: 1573: 1550:Blob the Whale 1491: 1488: 1487: 1486: 1476: 1469: 1459: 1449: 1376: 1375: 1355: 1325: 1282: 1279: 1271:natural gender 1255:Benjamin Whorf 1224:Modern English 1219: 1218:Modern English 1216: 1153:Middle English 1117: 1114: 1042: 1041: 1039: 1036: 1029: 1025: 1024: 1022: 1021:"winsome maid" 1019: 1012: 1008: 1007: 1001: 998: 991: 987: 986: 984: 981: 974: 970: 969: 967: 964: 957: 953: 952: 950: 949:"female child" 947: 940: 936: 935: 923: 920: 913: 909: 908: 906: 903: 896: 892: 891: 889: 886: 879: 875: 874: 872: 869: 862: 858: 857: 855: 852: 845: 841: 840: 838: 835: 828: 824: 823: 821: 818: 811: 807: 806: 804: 801: 794: 790: 789: 773: 770: 763: 759: 758: 756: 755:"female child" 753: 746: 742: 741: 739: 738:"female pupil" 736: 729: 728:lærningmægden 725: 724: 722: 719: 712: 708: 707: 705: 702: 695: 691: 690: 688: 685: 678: 674: 673: 671: 668: 661: 657: 656: 654: 651: 644: 643:fæmenhadesmon 640: 639: 637: 634: 627: 623: 622: 620: 617: 610: 606: 605: 602: 599: 596: 534: 531: 457:natural gender 441:Modern English 437:Middle English 419: 418: 416: 415: 408: 401: 393: 390: 389: 365: 362: 361: 358: 357: 345:Capitalization 339: 334: 333: 330: 329: 291: 286: 285: 282: 281: 208: 203: 202: 199: 198: 147:Interrogatives 120:Demonstratives 87: 82: 81: 78: 77: 48: 43: 42: 39: 38: 30: 29: 23: 22: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 3257: 3246: 3243: 3241: 3238: 3237: 3235: 3223: 3217: 3213: 3210:. Cambridge: 3209: 3204: 3200: 3194: 3190: 3186: 3181: 3180: 3159: 3155: 3151: 3144: 3142: 3126: 3122: 3116: 3110:, p. 29. 3109: 3104: 3097: 3092: 3084: 3082:9780521152211 3078: 3074: 3067: 3052: 3048: 3047: 3039: 3024: 3017: 3016: 3008: 3000: 2993: 2992: 2984: 2982: 2980: 2978: 2962: 2958: 2952: 2937: 2935:9780203455944 2931: 2927: 2923: 2919: 2918: 2910: 2895: 2891: 2884: 2869:on 2017-02-18 2868: 2864: 2860: 2853: 2834: 2830: 2823: 2817: 2801: 2800:Gender Census 2797: 2791: 2783: 2781:0-521-43146-8 2777: 2773: 2769: 2765: 2759: 2753: 2750: 2745: 2738: 2733: 2726: 2721: 2715: 2710: 2704: 2699: 2692: 2691:0-226-28705-X 2688: 2684: 2679: 2672: 2668: 2664: 2658: 2642: 2638: 2632: 2630: 2621: 2614: 2612: 2610: 2608: 2606: 2604: 2602: 2600: 2598: 2596: 2594: 2592: 2590: 2582: 2577: 2569: 2565: 2561: 2557: 2553: 2549: 2545: 2541: 2534: 2532: 2524: 2518: 2502: 2497: 2493: 2489: 2482: 2475: 2473: 2465: 2464: 2457: 2449: 2447:90-272-1841-2 2443: 2439: 2435: 2428: 2426: 2417: 2410: 2403: 2398: 2390: 2388:0-521-66227-3 2384: 2380: 2376: 2369: 2367: 2365: 2357: 2352: 2346:, p. 53. 2345: 2340: 2332: 2328: 2324: 2318: 2314: 2307: 2305: 2303: 2301: 2299: 2291: 2287: 2283: 2277: 2273: 2259: 2256: 2254: 2251: 2249: 2246: 2245: 2239: 2237: 2233: 2229: 2221: 2217: 2213: 2209: 2205: 2202: 2198: 2194: 2191: 2188:Avoidance of 2187: 2186: 2185: 2182: 2179: 2175: 2171: 2167: 2166:structuralist 2163: 2157: 2147: 2145: 2141: 2136: 2134: 2129: 2124: 2122: 2118: 2114: 2110: 2106: 2102: 2098: 2094: 2090: 2086: 2082: 2076: 2074: 2070: 2066: 2062: 2058: 2054: 2050: 2046: 2042: 2038: 2035:) are called 2034: 2030: 2026: 2022: 2018: 2014: 2010: 2006: 2000: 1998: 1993: 1991: 1987: 1977: 1975: 1971: 1970: 1964: 1962: 1961: 1956: 1955: 1950: 1949: 1944: 1943: 1938: 1937: 1932: 1931: 1926: 1925: 1920: 1919: 1913: 1911: 1910: 1905: 1904: 1893: 1891: 1886: 1882: 1872: 1870: 1866: 1862: 1857: 1855: 1851: 1850:no one/nobody 1847: 1843: 1838: 1837: 1835: 1829: 1827: 1821: 1818: 1814: 1810: 1806: 1802: 1801:interrogative 1798: 1797: 1792: 1782: 1779: 1777: 1776: 1771: 1767: 1763: 1759: 1755: 1754: 1748: 1744: 1740: 1736: 1732: 1728: 1724: 1720: 1711: 1709: 1705: 1701: 1699: 1698:ship sponsors 1695: 1691: 1687: 1683: 1679: 1675: 1671: 1667: 1663: 1659: 1658: 1652: 1650: 1646: 1645: 1640: 1639: 1634: 1633: 1628: 1627: 1626:King George V 1621: 1616: 1613: 1609: 1604: 1602: 1598: 1594: 1590: 1586: 1582: 1572: 1570: 1566: 1561: 1559: 1555: 1551: 1547: 1542: 1541: 1539: 1533: 1531: 1527: 1522: 1521: 1519: 1513: 1512: 1508: 1506: 1502: 1498: 1484: 1483: 1477: 1474: 1470: 1467: 1466: 1460: 1458: 1454: 1450: 1447: 1443: 1439: 1435: 1434: 1433: 1430: 1428: 1424: 1420: 1416: 1412: 1408: 1403: 1401: 1397: 1393: 1389: 1385: 1381: 1373: 1369: 1365: 1361: 1360: 1356: 1353: 1352: 1347: 1343: 1339: 1335: 1331: 1330: 1326: 1323: 1319: 1315: 1311: 1310: 1306: 1305: 1304: 1302: 1298: 1294: 1288: 1278: 1276: 1272: 1268: 1264: 1260: 1256: 1251: 1249: 1245: 1244:widow/widower 1240: 1237: 1233: 1229: 1225: 1215: 1213: 1212:morphological 1209: 1204: 1202: 1198: 1194: 1193:demonstrative 1190: 1186: 1182: 1178: 1174: 1173: 1168: 1167: 1162: 1158: 1154: 1149: 1147: 1143: 1139: 1135: 1131: 1127: 1123: 1113: 1111: 1105: 1103: 1102: 1097: 1093: 1092: 1087: 1083: 1079: 1075: 1074: 1069: 1068: 1063: 1062: 1057: 1056: 1051: 1050: 1040: 1038:"female heir" 1037: 1034: 1030: 1027: 1026: 1023: 1020: 1017: 1013: 1010: 1009: 1006: 1002: 999: 996: 992: 989: 988: 985: 982: 979: 975: 972: 971: 968: 965: 962: 958: 955: 954: 951: 948: 945: 941: 938: 937: 934: 928: 924: 921: 918: 914: 911: 910: 907: 904: 901: 897: 894: 893: 890: 887: 884: 880: 877: 876: 873: 870: 867: 863: 860: 859: 856: 853: 850: 846: 843: 842: 839: 836: 833: 829: 826: 825: 822: 819: 816: 812: 809: 808: 805: 802: 799: 795: 792: 791: 788: 782: 778: 774: 771: 768: 764: 761: 760: 757: 754: 751: 747: 744: 743: 740: 737: 734: 730: 727: 726: 723: 720: 717: 713: 710: 709: 706: 703: 700: 696: 693: 692: 689: 686: 683: 679: 676: 675: 672: 669: 666: 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