Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2009 in the subject German Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Innsbruck (Institut fur Sprachen und Literaturen: Sprachwissenschaft), course: Linguistics, language: English, abstract: This book is a revised version of a dissertation completed in 2009. A corpus-based study on German personal reference, more specifically the sex-marker '-in', is at its core. Grammatical gender in German is often stated to be independent of the notion of sex (or gender in the sense of Butler 2004, respectively), even if some residual relation is...