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When visiting En Marche!’s ‘Republic on the Move!’ website, the web user will encounter the following sentence: Chez En Marche la moitié des délégués nationaux sont des déléguées nationales. ‘At En Marche, half of the national M.PL delegates M.PL are national F.PL delegates F.PL.’ Based on the beginning of the sentence, which speaks of délégués nationaux ‘national M.PL delegates M.PL’ in the masculine form, the reader might be surprised to learn at the end of the sentence that women—déléguées nationales ‘national F.PL (female) delegates F.PL’—are part of the goup délégués nationaux ‘national M.PL delegates M.PL’. This is because the masculine role noun délégués nationaux has more than one meaning: it can be interpreted as referring to men only—délégués nationaux ‘nationalM.PL delegatesM.PL’ would thus mean ‘male national delegates’. But it can also be interpreted as referring to a group consisting of men and women—délégués nationaux ‘national M.PL delegates M.PL’ would thus mean ‘male and female national delegates’.

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    2025年

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  • Clara Stumm

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When visiting En Marche!’s ‘Republic on the Move!’ website, the web user will encounter the following sentence: Chez En Marche la moitié des délégués nationaux sont des déléguées nationales. ‘At En Marche, half of the national M.PL delegates M.PL are national F.PL delegates F.PL.’ Based on the beginning of the sentence, which speaks of délégués nationaux ‘national M.PL delegates M.PL’ in the masculine form, the reader might be surprised to learn at the end of the sentence that women—déléguées nationales ‘national F.PL (female) delegates F.PL’—are part of the goup délégués nationaux ‘national M.PL delegates M.PL’. This is because the masculine role noun délégués nationaux has more than one meaning: it can be interpreted as referring to men only—délégués nationaux ‘nationalM.PL delegatesM.PL’ would thus mean ‘male national delegates’. But it can also be interpreted as referring to a group consisting of men and women—délégués nationaux ‘national M.PL delegates M.PL’ would thus mean ‘male and female national delegates’.