Re: Gender in conlangs (was: Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad))
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 31, 2003, 18:38 |
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:22:18AM -0700, Muke Tever wrote:
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> How do others with conlangs with the familiar masc-fem-neut gender system
> assign gender to words?
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In Ebisedian, grammatical gender matches biological gender. There are 5
genders, masculine, feminine, epicene ("wildcard" for masc/fem), neuter
(non-masc/fem), and double (hermaphroditic).
Tamahi, on the other hand, has lost all gender inflections except in the
pronouns (and even the pronouns are starting to lose gender distinctions),
and only retains non-productive gender forms from Ebisedian. Eg.,
pi'zdi/bistai'/bis33'di are now treated as 3 unrelated words; and the
Ebisedian ba'ngi/maga~i'/mangi' have collapsed into _magi~'_, which can be
either masculine, feminine, or epicene.
T
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