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Re: Pronoun gender in Ikanirae Seru

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Monday, March 31, 2003, 17:24
H. S. Teoh scripsit:

> > (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.
In the Bantu languages, gender is called "noun class". -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Promises become binding when there is a meeting of the minds and consideration is exchanged. So it was at King's Bench in common law England; so it was under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and so it is today. --_Specht v. Netscape_

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