Re: THEORY: Gender in verbs

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> >What other parts-of-speech
> >might plausibly agree with verbal gender?
>
> [snip]
> If there are "pro-verbs" (proforms for verbs), they might agree as well;
> pronouns frequently "agree" with the gender of their referent.
AFMCL, Yivrian does this. Verbs are classed as stative or active,
which has a semantic component, but there is quite a bit of
arbitrariness in the actual assignment of individual verbs. There are
two pro-verbs, an active one (atya) and a stative one (eya), chosen
according to the class of the verb they replace.

This isn't exactly what you have in mind, but it's the closest thing I
know of. Eldin gave a good list of other natlang attributes that have
similar properties.


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