Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- ` Gender and its relation to sex: The myth of 'natural' gender -- Gender determined dialect variation -- Ladies and gentlemen: Word order and gender in English -- Gender typology -- Gender and culture -- Psycholinguistic approaches to the investigation of grammatical gender -- Plural as a value of Cushitic gender: Evidence from gender congruency effect experiments in Konso (Cushitic) -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index