Communicating Gender in the Eastern Maroon Creole

Bettina Migge (1)

1 SeDyL - Structure et Dynamique des Langues

This paper discusses the different ways in which gender is encoded in Eastern Maroon discourses. The paper shows that although the language does not have grammatical gender it has multiple ways in which gender may be encoded if required.

Mots clés: gender; Creoles of Suriname and French Guiana; sexism; genre; créoles du Suriname et de Guyane; sexisme

Domaines: Linguistique

Bettina Migge. Communicating Gender in the Eastern Maroon Creole. Migge, B. Gender across languages, John Benjamins, pp.85-104, 2001. ⟨hal-01498531⟩