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Re: What's a gender?

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Friday, December 29, 2006, 10:37
On 12/29/06, Julia Schnecki Simon <helicula@...> wrote:
> Since there are nouns that are neither clearly "masculine" nor clearly > "feminine", but behave in a predictable way anyway, these nouns form a > third group that surfaces as "masculine" in the singular and > "feminine" in the plural. Let's therefore assume that beside the two > surface genders, the language has three underlying genders, one of > which surfaces as "masculine under any circumstances", one as > "feminine under any circumstances", and one as "masculine in the > singular and feminine in the plural".
Sounds good to me. And let's call the third underlying gender "neuter" :) Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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