Gender (grammar) - Revision history

Wohlgemuth at 16:55, 21 August 2014

2014-08-21T16:55:02Z

Wohlgemuth: + utrecht data

2009-02-15T15:27:03Z

+ utrecht data

Luo at 19:01, 17 June 2008

2008-06-17T19:01:22Z

Russky1802: russian term added

2008-01-05T20:02:01Z

russian term added

Linguipedia: New page: {{Stub}} '''Gender''' is an inflectional dimension used on referring expressions to designate semantic class membership of their denotatum. :::*''"By the term...

2007-07-12T17:14:25Z

New page: {{Stub}} '''Gender''' is an inflectional dimension used on referring expressions to designate semantic class membership of their denotatum. :::*''"By the term...

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{{Stub}}
'''Gender''' is an inflectional [[dimension]] used on [[referring expression|referring expressions]] to designate semantic class membership of their denotatum.

:::*''"By the term ''gender'' is here meant any ''grammatical'' class-division presenting some analogy to the distinction in the Aryan languages between masculine, feminine and neuter, whether the division be based on the natural division into the two sexes, or on that between animate and inanimate, or on something else."'' (Jespersen 1924:226)

===Comments===
Traditionally, the distinction between [[natural gender]] (which designates the biological sex of animate referents) and [[grammatical gender]] (categorisations which depend on other, culturally specific criteria) has attracted much attention.

===List of genders===
*[[masculine]]
*[[feminine]]
*[[neuter]]

===Synonym===
*[[noun class]]

===See also===
*[[classifier]]
*[[gender (sociolinguistics)]]

===References===
*{{:Corbett 1991}}
*{{:Jespersen 1924}}

===Other languages===
French [[genre]] German [[Genus]], [[Geschlecht]]

{{dc}}
[[Category:Morphology]]

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 *Chinese [[性范畴]]
 *French [[genre]]
-*German [[Genus]], [[Geschlecht]]
+*German [[Genus (de)]], [[Geschlecht]]
 *Russian [[род]]
 {{dc}}
 [[Category:Morphology]]

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 '''Gender''' is an inflectional [[dimension]] used on [[referring expression|referring expressions]] to designate semantic class membership of their denotatum.
-:::*''"By the term ''gender'' is here meant any ''grammatical'' class-division presenting some analogy to the distinction in the Aryan languages between masculine, feminine and neuter, whether the division be based on the natural division into the two sexes, or on that between animate and inanimate, or on something else."'' (Jespersen 1924:226)
+:::''"By the term ''gender'' is here meant any ''grammatical'' class-division presenting some analogy to the distinction in the Aryan languages between masculine, feminine and neuter, whether the division be based on the natural division into the two sexes, or on that between animate and inanimate, or on something else."'' (Jespersen 1924:226)
 ===Comments===
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 *{{:Jespersen 1924}}
 *{{: Lyons 1968}}
 ===Other languages===

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 *[[classifier]]
 *[[gender (sociolinguistics)]]
 ===References===
 *{{:Corbett 1991}}
 *{{:Jespersen 1924}}
 ===Other languages===
 *French [[genre]]
 *German [[Genus]], [[Geschlecht]]