Gender and its relation to sex : the myth of 'natural gender' / Sally McConnell-Ginet -- Gender determined dialect variation / Michael Dunn -- Ladies and gentlemen : word order and gender in English / Peter Hegarty -- Gender typology / Greville G. Corbett -- Gender and culture / Marianne Mithun -- Psycholinguistic approaches to the investigation of grammatical gender / Niels O. Schiller -- Plural as a value of Cushitic gender : evidence from gender congruency effect. Experiments in Konso (Cushitic) / Mulugeta T. Tsegaye, Maarten Mous and Niels O. Schiller