Part 1: Gender, Language, Culture; 1. Introduction (Carla Bazzanella, Simona Leonardi & Eva-Maria Thune); Part 2: The Indo-european family; 2. Czech (Svetla Cmejrkova, Prague); 3. Dutch (Alessandra Corda, Leiden); 4. English (Camilla Bettoni, Padua); 5. French (Margareth Wijk, Lund); 6. German (Eva-Maria Thune, Bologna & Simona Leonardi, Naples); 7. Greek (Marianna Katsoyiannou & Dionysis Goutsos, Cyprus); 8. Italian (Manuela Manera & Carla Bazzanella, Turin); 9 Polish (Johanna Miecznikowski-Funfschilling, Turin); 10. Portuguese (Aldina Marques, Braga); 11. Russian (Maria Bonnemark, Lund); 12. Spanish (Pura Guil, Madrid); 13. The Semitic familiy; 14. Arabic (Atiqa Hachimi, Hawaii); 15. Hebrew (Zohar Livnat, Bar-Ilan University); Part 3: The Uralic family. 16. Hungarian (Viviana Patti, Turin & Marcell Nagy, Budapest); 17. the Altaic family; 18. Turkish (Marina Castagneto, Cagliari & Rosita D'Amora, Firenze-Napoli); Part 4: The Austro-Asiatic family; 19. Chinese (Antonella Ceccagno, Bologna).