LA PROBLÉMATIQUE DE L’ATTRIBUTION DU GENRE EN FRANÇAIS ET EN ARABE
THE PROBLEM OF GENDER ASSIGNMENT IN FRENCH AND ARABIC

Summary/Abstract: The assignment of grammatical gender in different languages is a complex linguistic process.How do French and Arabic express gender? Do they convey masculine hegemony? Is Arabic structurally and semantically less/more gendered than French, or is the linguistic performance of the two languages almost similar? To answer these questions, we adopt a descriptive, analytical, and comparative approach that will allow us to show the deployment of linguistic material to construct gender, masculine and feminine, through the different variations (lexical, phonic, morphological,syntactic) as well as the semantic and referential properties of the units of the two languages. It is thisdual intralinguistic and interlinguistic examination that would allow us to formulate some hypotheses,to see the potential differences between the two languages, but above all to highlight the interest of broadening the analytical perspective in the learning and description of languages.

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