In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not...
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Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender is the usage of wording that is balanced in its treatment of the genders in a non-grammatical sense...
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of grammatical gender. Certain language families, such as the Austronesian, Turkic, and Uralic language families, usually have no grammatical genders (see...
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German nouns are included in one of three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine or neuter. While the gender often does not directly influence the plural...
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is a natural or constructed language that has no distinctions of grammatical gender—that is, no categories requiring morphological agreement between nouns...
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In Spanish, grammatical gender is a linguistic feature that affects different types of words and how they agree with each other. It applies to nouns, adjectives...
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A system of grammatical gender, whereby every noun was treated as either masculine, feminine, or neuter, existed in Old English, but fell out of use during...
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listener. Some languages, such as Slavic, with gender-specific pronouns have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most or...
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means to achieve gender neutrality: Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender Gender neutrality in genderless languages Gender neutrality in...
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Norwegian language (redirect from Grammatical gender in Norwegian)
patterns (the noun gender system is more pronounced than in Bokmål): There is in general no way to infer what grammatical gender a specific noun has...
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Christian theology, the gender of the Holy Spirit has been the subject of some debate in recent times. The grammatical gender of the word for "spirit"...
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Personal pronoun (redirect from Gender pronouns)
singular or plural), grammatical or natural gender, case, and formality. The term "personal" is used here purely to signify the grammatical sense; personal...
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the mid-20th century, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but grammatical categories. In the West, in the 1970s, feminist theory...
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Swedish, nouns have two grammatical genders, and pronouns have the same two grammatical genders in addition to two natural genders similar to English. Historically...
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French grammar (redirect from Grammatical gender in French)
present indicative. Every French noun has a grammatical gender, either masculine or feminine. The grammatical gender of a noun referring to a human usually...
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Noun class (redirect from Rational gender)
referent, such as gender, animacy, shape, but such designations are often clearly conventional. Some authors use the term "grammatical gender" as a synonym...
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fashion Gender neutrality Gender-neutral language Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender Gender neutrality in genderless languages Gender neutrality...
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mutually exclusive. Frequently encountered grammatical categories include: Case, varying according to function. Gender, with values like Male, Female, Animate...
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and the word gender was almost always used to refer to grammatical categories, although there are a small number of examples of gender being used as...
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Proto-Afroasiatic language (section Grammatical gender)
scholars agree that Proto-Afroasiatic nouns had grammatical gender, at least two and possibly three grammatical numbers (singular, plural, and possibly dual)...
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Genderless language (category Grammatical gender)
language that has no distinctions of grammatical gender—that is, no categories requiring morphological agreement for gender between nouns and associated pronouns...
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Inflection (redirect from Grammatical inflection)
is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness....
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Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the...
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symbol – Person or character widely regarded as sexually attractive grammatical gender – Linguistic system of noun classification In the biological sense...
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sex, the gender of the Holy Spirit from earliest times was also represented as including feminine aspects (partly due to grammatical gender, especially...
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Zaza language (section Grammatical gender)
distinguish between masculine and feminine grammatical gender. Each noun belongs to one of those two genders. In order to correctly decline any noun and...
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fully gender-neutral title. The above applies to gender neutrality in English and in some other languages without grammatical gender (where grammatical gender...
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in languages with free word order, and often agreement between the grammatical gender, number or other feature of the modifier and its head is used to indicate...
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unrelated non-Hamitic "Chadic" based on which languages possessed grammatical gender. On the other hand, the classification also relied on non-linguistic...
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conjugations for every verb. Verbs may inflect for grammatical categories such as person, number, gender, case, tense, aspect, mood, voice, possession, definiteness...
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