The fact is well established that the animate gender is thoroughly motivated in Indo-European society. The gender of trees, notoriously in the feminine, is a case in point. The feminine gender in trees is motivated by virtue of their being bearers of fruit, of their having “engendering” qualities. All entities falling under category of “engenderers” appear to be in the feminine. As a consequence, it seems only natural that all entities that are bearers of fruit, as well as all entities that are related to the earth, be in the feminine. Yet our research deals with a category of fruit-bearing plants that, contrary to the rule, appear to be in the masculine in ancient Greek. It is the case of leguminous vegetables pertaining to the papilonacee...
Neither plant imagery nor depictions of the human form are rare in late Iron Age and early medieval ...
In the fields of experimental writing and experimental filmmaking, respectively, Hélène Cixous and L...
La littérature grecque permet de dénombrer une petite centaine de plantes utilisées dans l'Antiquité...
The fact is well established that the animate gender is thoroughly motivated in Indo-European societ...
International audienceAntoine Meillet attributed to an archaic belief in the animated nature of plan...
Trees have always been important as natural entities carrying a strong symbolic and metaphorical wei...
Trees have always been important as natural entities carrying a strong symbolic and metaphorical wei...
De plus en plus d’études s’accordent à reconnaître dans la métaphore un instrument de la pensée, plu...
Im vorliegenden Beitrag gilt die Aumerksamkeit der Panzenmetaphorik und ihrem Zusammenhang mit der G...
Byl Simon. De quelques ingrédients gynécologiques (fruits et plantes) et leurs relations avec les pu...
Knowledge concerning plants has become and continues to be a primordial factor in the worldvision of...
Complex evolutionary forces determine whether plants are male, female or hermaphrodite throughout th...
Typical of male reluctance to accept the role of female involvement with entheogens, on...
Natural products of plant meet a renewed interest for a decade. However, climate change and human ac...
International audienceThis contribution sets up to question the function, or rather the functioning ...
Neither plant imagery nor depictions of the human form are rare in late Iron Age and early medieval ...
In the fields of experimental writing and experimental filmmaking, respectively, Hélène Cixous and L...
La littérature grecque permet de dénombrer une petite centaine de plantes utilisées dans l'Antiquité...
The fact is well established that the animate gender is thoroughly motivated in Indo-European societ...
International audienceAntoine Meillet attributed to an archaic belief in the animated nature of plan...
Trees have always been important as natural entities carrying a strong symbolic and metaphorical wei...
Trees have always been important as natural entities carrying a strong symbolic and metaphorical wei...
De plus en plus d’études s’accordent à reconnaître dans la métaphore un instrument de la pensée, plu...
Im vorliegenden Beitrag gilt die Aumerksamkeit der Panzenmetaphorik und ihrem Zusammenhang mit der G...
Byl Simon. De quelques ingrédients gynécologiques (fruits et plantes) et leurs relations avec les pu...
Knowledge concerning plants has become and continues to be a primordial factor in the worldvision of...
Complex evolutionary forces determine whether plants are male, female or hermaphrodite throughout th...
Typical of male reluctance to accept the role of female involvement with entheogens, on...
Natural products of plant meet a renewed interest for a decade. However, climate change and human ac...
International audienceThis contribution sets up to question the function, or rather the functioning ...
Neither plant imagery nor depictions of the human form are rare in late Iron Age and early medieval ...
In the fields of experimental writing and experimental filmmaking, respectively, Hélène Cixous and L...
La littérature grecque permet de dénombrer une petite centaine de plantes utilisées dans l'Antiquité...