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Dear Spike,<br>
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The only society I'm familiar with where the third gender is widely acknowledged is the Thai society, and Thai pronoun are quite binary.<br>
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Some pronouns are exclusively used for men (like "phom") and some exclusively for women ("rao" as the 1st pronoun). "Chan" is largely a female 1sg pronoun but I've seen some men use it in certain contexts (such as in pop songs). In sum, there are pronouns that
are more masculin and some are more feminine, and I would view the whole schema as largely binary.<br>
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>From Taipei,<br>
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Ian Joo<br>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Spike Gildea <spike@uoregon.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 25, 2018 11:29:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> lingtyp<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Lingtyp] Query re pronoun inventories</font>
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<div class="PlainText">I have been contacted by an undergraduate student who is claiming that gender binary pronouns (masculine, feminine, maybe a neuter) are driven by cultural perspectives that limit the option — i.e., if your culture only recognizs two genders,
that makes your pronouns binary, too. The question I asked is what about those cultures with three or four genders (as written up in National Geographic last year)? Do any of them have multiple genders in their personal pronouns, or are they just binary or
even non-gendered? Any information and/or references would be welcome!<br>
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Best,<br>
Spike<br>
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