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... gender with biological sex has forced grammatical confusion on speakers and circular reasoning on those who've tried to justify it . John Lyons ' discussion of grammatical and " natural " gender in Introduction to Theoretical ...
... gender with biological sex has forced grammatical confusion on speakers and circular reasoning on those who've tried to justify it . John Lyons ' discussion of grammatical and " natural " gender in Introduction to Theoretical ...
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... gender . The result , in Indo - European , was a noun classifi- cation system based on the semantic feature [ ± animate ] . That is , at some stage of I - E , two genders developed , in the ... gender is said to Gender : The Sex of Nouns 59.
... gender . The result , in Indo - European , was a noun classifi- cation system based on the semantic feature [ ± animate ] . That is , at some stage of I - E , two genders developed , in the ... gender is said to Gender : The Sex of Nouns 59.
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... gender is said to be an internal requirement that specific grammatical elements must agree with each other in gender , in addition to number ( and sometimes case ) . This rule is known as " concord " or " agreement . " Grammatical gender ...
... gender is said to be an internal requirement that specific grammatical elements must agree with each other in gender , in addition to number ( and sometimes case ) . This rule is known as " concord " or " agreement . " Grammatical gender ...
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