From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Nov 25 16:47:46 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:47:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Go8B5-0004AD-Sa for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:47:28 -0800 Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.30]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Go8B2-0004A3-BY for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:47:27 -0800 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (mar92-6-82-227-151-129.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.151.129]) by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96C488A0 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:47:22 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4568E417.2010400@free.fr> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:47:19 +0100 From: "jexOm." User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: semantic category vs. gender References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 13258 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jexOm@free.fr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > In a message dated 11/23/2006 4:23:18 AM Central Standard Time, > ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > > >> Gender in language IS a form of semantic classifier, having only 1 or 2 >> or 3 categories in Indo-European languages (and thus being rather >> useless most of the time, but apparently useful enough that most IE >> languages have those categories), but having larger numbers of >> genders/categories in other languages. >> >> lojbab > > > I doubt that gender in European languages is really a semantic category, > beyond the obvious few words relating directly to sexual entities. > > stevo And they vary depending on the language. See http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~lera/papers/ read http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~lera/papers/gender.pdf mi'e jexOm. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.