Граматичні, семантичні, стилістичні та соціальні аспекти вживання фемінативів в українській мові
Grammatical, Semantic, Stylistic, and Social Aspects of the Use of Feminatives in the Ukrainian Language

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to study the grammatical, semantic, stylistic, and social aspects of the use of feminatives in the Ukrainian language based on term theory providing combined use of descriptive and prescriptive approaches. It was shown that adding in text extra feminine proper nouns as simply opposed to masculinitives may result in several inconsistencies leading to violation of grammatical and phonological rules and to the degradation expressive ability of the language. Not doing much to make a woman more visible, this opposition, in particular, leaves no room for correctly identifying non-binary persons and personified objects. As a possible solution, we propose to recognize a general gender combining simple genders by the logical “OR”, the existence of which follows from the analysis of the language practice. The corresponding nouns should be used instead of masculine names in the generalizing function.

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