FÉMINISATION ET SUBDUCTION DANS LA PRESSE ÉCRITE, CAS DE CAMEROON TRIBUNE

The feminization of terms and the grammar “rule of proximity” remain a topical issue for terminologists as well as discourse analysts. If the generic masculine prevails over the noun agreement, the communication context tends to challenge this statement. This paper examines the morphological variation of gender in professional names and analyzes its syntax from a phenomenological point of view. The analytic potential of subduction to syntactic feminization is studied here based on the theoretical framework of Psychomechanics. We use examples drawn mainly from the field of print media, especially the Cameroon Tribune. The final aim is to show that, as for the lexicon, subduction is also a specific modality of the general operation of syntax.