Re: feminine, masculine and... ?
| From: | Dan Seriff <microtonal@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 22, 2000, 14:38 |
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Le cavallero wrote:
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> I have been thinking about the possibility for a grammar with pronouns to
> have genders for masculine and feminine for people and animals according to
> natural sex and a third category which serves optionally either for the
> traditional neuter or for such nouns representing a person or animal where the
> gender need not or can not be named.
Both my conlangs have non-Indo-European centered gender systems.
Mungayöd has 4: human, animal, matter, concept. Ylank has 7: masculine
human, feminine human, child human, animal, vegetable, matter, concept.
I'm shooting for most of the languages on my planet to have primarily an
animate/inanimate/conceptual distinction, although some languages will
be more resolute in their distinctions.
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Daniel Seriff
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