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Dual gender
From Teflpedia
Dual gender is class of grammatical gender. In English, words belonging to this gender are marked for personal agency, but are not marked for being masculine or feminine. Consequently, they are gender neutral, though they cannot express the neuter gender.
The first person, second person, are both dual gender. Unisex names, i.e. personal names used regardless of social gender, are dual gender. Many job titles are also not marked for gender.
Class | Examples |
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Personal names | Alex, Danny, Kelly, Kerry, Leigh, etc. |
Job titles | doctor, police officer, etc |
Pronouns | I, one, oneself, our, ours, ourselves, me, my, mine, myself, us, we, you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves. |
There is a technical difference between dual gender and common gender; dual gender is marked as having agency, but common gender covers both agential and non-agential nouns.