Gender Property ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/GenderProperty


Thing
      |_ Abstract
            |_ Linguistic Property
                  |_ Morphosyntactic Property
                        |_ Gender Property

Direct SubConcepts:

AnimateGender  ArabicNumeralGender  FeminineGender  InanimateGender  NeuterGender  VegetableGender  HumanGender  MasculineGender  RomanNumeralGender  


Definition:

GenderProperty is the class of properties that are assigned to nouns on the basis of their inherent properties by an AssignmentSystem and required by the syntax to appear on the target in an AgreementSystem. Gender may but need not be assigned on the basis of sex [Corbett 1991].


See Also:
Surrey Morphology Group - Gender

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2009-06-04 13:28:05

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