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. lojbabI 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.