Re: Sex-neutral gender?
| From: | David Starner <starner@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 20, 2002, 9:49 |
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On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:23:32AM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> > Sherall is a
> > Germantic language, a direct descendent of modern German. In its
> > adaption to the Sherall, it became a gender-neutral language, but kept
> > the grammatical gender of German. So then what would the three genders
> > be called? I've thought of Red, Blue and Green, but I was wondering if
> > there were any natural examples of this, or if anyone had better ideas?
>
> So, what do these three genders mean, then?
German's genders are largely arbitrary already; this is just taking that
further. There will be a number of minimal pairs, differing only in
gender, and they will be a way of disambiguating pronoun-noun
connections.
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