Re: Semantic Content of Grammatical Gender?

> Daniel Bowman <danny.c.bowman@...> wrote:
>
> This was meant to oppose gender particles in French and Spanish,
> which have absolutely no semantic relationship with their nouns
> unless the noun is an animal or a person ("la table" is
> semantically no different than "le table").
>
One little nit: If I understand you corrrectly this is not always so.
There is a difference between 'el papa' and 'la papa.'  That's the only
one that comes to mind, but there may be others.

Charlie

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