Re: Mixed person plurals: gender & the (in/ex)clusive distinction; ...
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 11, 2005, 23:13 |
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In a message dated 8/11/2005 11:54:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
joerg_rhiemeier@WEB.DE writes:
>The gender of an animate noun is indicated by the final vowel,
>which is /a/ for common gender, /o/ for masculine and /e/ for
>feminine. Inanimate nouns end in consonants.
Are these rules exceptionless? I ask because it's been claimed that there
are no natural languages in which the gender of all nouns can be predicted with
100% reliability from their form. If these rules have no exceptions, then Old
Albic violates this alleged universal.
Doug
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