Re: a question about names
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 30, 2004, 22:19 |
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In a message dated 9/29/2004 10:30:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
markjreed@MAIL.COM writes:
>Klingon has no gender distinctions either.
Klingon has different pronouns for (a) beings capable of using language and
(b) everything else. That's "gender" in the usual linguistc sense*, isn't it?
*"Genders are classes of nouns reflected in the behavior of associated words"
(according to Greville Corbett quoting C.F. Hockett).
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