The Role of the Pronouns he and she in Seventeenth-Century Obstetric DirectivesFootnote*

*The present article is part of the ongoing research project “Evidencialidad en un corpus multidisciplinar de artículos técnicos en lengua inglesa”, grant FFI 2009–10801 (Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation and the European Regional Development Fund). This grant is hereby gratefully acknowledged.

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