Re: What's a gender?

Sounds very much like Italian!

Eugene

2006/12/29, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>:
> 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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