Grammatical Gender
Grammatical gender is a noun class system, composed of two or three classes, whose nouns that have human male and female referents tend to be in separate classes. Other nouns that are classified in the same way in the language may not be classed by any correlation with natural sex distinctions.
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Broader Terms
- BT↑ Noun Class
More specific terms
- NT3 ↓ Feminine Gender
- NT3 ↓ Masculine Gender
- NT3 ↓ Neuter Gender
Related terms
- RT⇆ Classifier
- RT⇆ Inflectional Category
- RT⇆ Noun
- RT⇆ Referent
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