Re: Pronoun gender in Ikanirae Seru
| From: | Joe Fatula <fatula3@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Tuesday, April 1, 2003, 2:22 |
|---|
From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
Subject: Re: Pronoun gender in Ikanirae Seru
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 11:15:00PM -0500, Rachel Klippenstein wrote:
> > In Ikanirae Seru, the third person pronoun
> > distinguishes between 4 "genders" (Is it still called
> > gender if masculine and feminine are not categories,
> > or is there another term?).
>
> I believe it's still gender. It's "grammatical gender" as opposed to
> "biological" or "physical" gender.
I've seen (and used) the term "class" where the different categories are not
based on gender. So here you'd have a personal class, an animate class,
etc.