Re: Phenomena
| From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 8, 2000, 9:15 |
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Am 03/06 09:40 Christophe Grandsire yscrifef:
> "She" is raining?! Interesting. What is the reason why the impersonal form
> is feminine and not masculine? Is the feminine the unmarked gender?
>
I think I noted that the impersonal in Welsh was feminine and relexed on
that. Since then I have noticed that I tend to use the feminine as the
unmarked gender.
- andrew.
--
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