September 28, 2005 Source: Memorial University of Newfoundland:
http://www.mun.ca/univrel/news/index.php?includefile=showitem.php&id=900 PSA: Visiting lecturer to examine gender in English grammar The Department of Linguistics at Memorial will host a lecture with Dr. Susanne Wagner, Freiburg University, Germany, on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005. The lecture, titled Gender in English Pronouns: Myth and Reality, will start at 3:30 p.m.in the Science Building, room SN-2101, on Memorial's St. John's campus. Dr. Wagner's presentation will outline the principles underlying the assignment of grammatical gender in English and try to account for the mixture of systems that are responsible for assigning gender in present-day spoken English. Her particular focus will be on traditional Newfoundlandand West Country English dialects, where sentences of the type "I sot on he [chair]" and "She's [share price] up now" are by no means unusual. Members of the general public are invited to attend. - 30 - For more information, please contact Tracey Mills, communications co-ordinator, Faculty of Arts, Memorial University, at 737-8292or tmills@mun.ca.
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