[Corpora-List] Meta-Gender & Meta-Number

[Jon Awbrey]

Re: http://mailman.uib.no/public/corpora/2009-December/009751.html

| Researchers also suggest each author pulls their works
| from a hypothetical "meta book".  One description of
| this concept might be a framework for the way an
| author uses language.  It is from this framework
| that all their works are ultimately derived.

Apparently, some authors pull their works from a meta*book
in which the word "their" is a genderless singular pronoun.

Jon

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