Dossena Marina (ed.). Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — 229 p. — (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 4).This contribution explores the use of the formal resources of English (third-person singular pronouns in anaphora, sex-sensitive collocations) for "assigned gender" in a corpus of letters written by settlers of the Great Plains of the United States in the last decades of the nineteenth century. The textual work is introduced by a discussion of significant theoretical aspects of the grammatical category of gender and of certain methodological issues - particularly "Units of Anaphoric Reference". Although assigned gender has been approached from a general perspective, particular attention has be.