Take, for instance, when the words for things and objects are masculine, feminine or gender neutral (or 'neuter'). For example, in Spanish, guitar - la guitarra - is a feminine noun, whereas ...

Some linguists see ‘splitting’, which is the use of both masculine and feminine forms at the same time, as the remedy for this situation. Bärbel Miemietz writes in a 1993 article Kto to Jest ‘Człowiek ...