Re: What's a gender?

Ah that's new-- do you have any examples?

Eugene

2006/12/30, Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>:
> Den 29. des. 2006 kl. 13.31 skrev Mark Reed:
>
> > Italian is notable for its number of m sg -> f pl nouns, to be sure,
> > but Spanish and other romlangs also exhibit the phenomenon.  I believe
> > the nouns in question all (or at least mostly) derive from Latin
> > neuters, which resemble masculine nouns in the singular and feminine
> > (singular) nouns in the plural.
>
> They do the same in Norwegian, actually, unlike Swedish and Danish.
> An old IE heritage, I guess.
>
> LEF
>

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