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Grammatical gender

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 related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. English does not have this system. In languages with grammatical gender, most or all nouns inherently carry one value of the…

Categorization of nouns into genders, Distribution of gender in the world's languages & Overview

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Categorization of nouns into genders

SemanticEtymologyForm-meaning mismatchClippingsKurdish language
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Distribution of gender in the world's languages

WALSClassifierFusionalAgglutinatingIsolating languages
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Overview

LinguisticsNoun classNounsEnglishGrammatical categories
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Gender shifts

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Categorization of nouns into genders

Gender shifts

Gender across languages

Distribution of gender in the world's languages

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Grammatical gender

Nodes249
Edges248
Triples159
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008032
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Grammatical gender

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related to Bibliography · 93
Grammatical gender → Adele, Amsterdam, An Essential Grammar, Berlin, Bernhard, Bradley, Bruno, Cambridge University Press, Categorization, Charles, Co, Colette, Corbett, Course, Craig, Crespo Cantalapiedra, Development, Di Garbo, Dialogue, Edith
related to Functions · 12
Grammatical gender → Because, Blumenbeet, English, Garten, Grammatical, Hence, In, In German, It, Languages, The, Three
related to Indo-European · 9
Grammatical gender → According, Armenian, English, Hittite, Indo-European, Many Indo-European, Proto-Indo-European, Research, The
related to How gender contrasts can influence cognition · 8
Grammatical gender → Apparent, Caveats, For, French, German, It, Spanish, This
related to Distribution of gender in the world's languages · 5
Grammatical gender → Gender, Grammatical, Johanna Nichols, Thus, WALS
related to Grammatical vs. natural gender · 2
Grammatical gender → Although, The
related to overview · 2
Grammatical gender → Common, Languages
see also · 2
Grammatical gender → EnglishGender-specific, Gender
causes · 1
Grammatical gender → a number of cognitive effects
is a · 1
Grammatical gender → antecedent of a pronoun

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gender feminine masculine nouns languages noun grammatical word example may neuter language english pronouns words genders singular also used french

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Grammatical gendercausesa number of cognitive effects0.90text
Grammatical genderis aantecedent of a pronoun0.90text
Ojibwe.Commoninstance ofModern examples include Algonquian languages0.80text
pieceinstance ofalthough they parallel the use of words0.80text
Ojibweinstance ofModern examples include Algonquian languages0.80text
zwierzęinstance ofa few general words0.80text
Italianinstance ofas in the other Romance languages0.80text
Frenchinstance ofas in the other Romance languages0.80text
generally follow the gender of the Latin words from which they are derivedinstance ofas in the other Romance languages0.80text
-essinstance ofhas feminine suffixes0.80text
shipsinstance ofand sometimes for certain objects0.80text
e.ginstance ofand sometimes for certain objects0.80text

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