Shokym Gulzhan

Social Gender in a Language Without Grammatical Gender: Relational and Status Encoding in Kazakh Female Nominations

This article examines how Social Gender is organized in Kazakh in the absence of grammatical gender. The study is based on a lexicographically verified corpus of Kazakh female nominations, supplemented by a limited contrastive set of gender-neutral and male-linked kinship terms. The material includes basic female refer...