Gender and linguistic diversity in Romance languages: Traditional phenomena revisited

Gabriela Mariel Zunino; Carmela Tomé Cornejo

doi:10.7557/1.14.3.8392

Authors

Gabriela Mariel Zunino Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0473-6192
Carmela Tomé Cornejo Universidad de Salamanca https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1770-3752

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/1.14.3.8392

Keywords:

gender, linguistic diversity, Romance languages

Abstract

Bilingual (English-Spanish) introduction to the monographic issue.

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