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Re: Gender

From:Carlos Thompson <cthompso@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 27, 1998, 20:25
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De: Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Fecha: Domingo 25 de Octubre de 1998 22:17
>>Yeah - I agree 'masculine' & 'feminine' are possible gender names and, >>indeed, are traditionally used of gender divisions in IE and Semitic >>languages. Sexes are 'male' & 'female'. > >>Ray. > >Actually, in Hebrew the genders are the same as the sexes - _zakhar_ is >used both as "male" and "masculine", and _neqeivah_ is both "female" and >"feminine".
Are genders the same as sexes? Or just the names? In Spanish there is a clear disctintion between gender and sex but we use the names "masculino" and "femenino" for either grammatical gender and sexual classification. -- Carlos Th