La primauté du genre masculin en chinois : étude de deux verbes dénotant l’acte du mariage

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The Chinese language does not have gender inflections in its grammar. The linguistic arrangement of gender in Chinese differs from languages classified as “gendered” such as French; it is mainly organized at the level of the lexicon in which the male gender largely dominates the female. The linguistic materiality of gender is also manifested at the syntactic level, notably regarding the verbs with specific predicative structures, such as the two verbs denoting the act of marriage analysed in this article. The central idea in this study is that these verbs with strong connotations of gender have both lexical and syntactic characteristics that are based on and which are explained by traditional Confucian conceptions, more precisely on the inferiority of women in society compared to men and the restrictions on their life sphere within the family circle.Keywords: gender, Chinese, verbs, act of marriage.