THE PRESENCE OF FEMININE GRAMMATICAL GENDER IN THE NOMINA AGENTIS CATEGORY IN ITALIAN DICTIONARIES DE MAURO AND IL SABATINI COLETTI

This paper aims to examine the relationship between language and gender in the Italian language, with specific reference to the names indicating professions. The work is divided into two parts: in the first part a general picture of the situation is outlined through a synthesis of the most significant academic and institutional contributions in the field of language and gender studies in Italy, with particular reference to the Raccomandazioni per un uso non sessista della lingua Italiana by Alma Sabatini. Furthermore, some basic hints are given of the morphological mechanisms of formation of t... Mehr ...