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ThispaperdemonstratesthegrammaticalnatureofSpanishgender,erroneously
oftenidentifiedwithsex.Thisconfusionhasrecentlyledsometoadoptthepractice
ofgenderdoubling.Besidesunnecessary,suchpracticerunscounterthesystemof
Spanish.Thepaperprovidesempiricalevidencethataneventualconsolidationand
spreadofgenderdoublingwouldinexorablycausenotableharmbothtostyleand
tothelanguageitself,tothedetrimentofitsspeakers,itssolecarriersandpossible
beneficiaries.
Keywords:Genderdoubling,genderandsex,grammarandlexicon,grammatical
agreement,pragmaticrelevance