• 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...
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  • of grammatical gender. Certain language families, such as the Austronesian, Turkic, and Uralic language families, usually have no grammatical genders (see...
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    In Spanish, grammatical gender is a linguistic feature that affects different types of words and how they agree with each other. It applies to nouns, adjectives...
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    Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender is the usage of wording that is balanced in its treatment of the genders in a non-grammatical sense...
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  • German nouns are included in one of three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine or neuter. While the gender often does not directly influence the plural...
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  • is a natural or constructed language that has no distinctions of grammatical gender—that is, no categories requiring morphological agreement between nouns...
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    A system of grammatical gender, whereby every noun was treated as either masculine, feminine, or neuter, existed in Old English, but fell out of use during...
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  • speaker or listener. Some languages with gender-specific pronouns have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most or...
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  • Christian theology, the gender of the Holy Spirit has been the subject of some debate in recent times. The grammatical gender of the word for "spirit"...
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    patterns (the noun gender system is more pronounced than in Bokmål): There is in general no way to infer what grammatical gender a specific noun has...
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  • means to achieve gender neutrality: Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender Gender neutrality in genderless languages Gender neutrality in...
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    the mid-20th century, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but grammatical categories. In the 1970s, feminist theory embraced the...
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  • socially constructed gender, the term gender is sometimes used by linguists to refer to social gender as well as grammatical gender. Some languages, such...
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  • present indicative. Every French noun has a grammatical gender, either masculine or feminine. The grammatical gender of a noun referring to a human usually...
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    sex, the gender of the Holy Spirit from earliest times was also represented as including feminine aspects (partly due to grammatical gender, especially...
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    fashion Gender neutrality Gender-neutral language Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender Gender neutrality in genderless languages Gender neutrality...
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  • singular or plural), grammatical or natural gender, case, and formality. The term "personal" is used here purely to signify the grammatical sense; personal...
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    Swedish, nouns have two grammatical genders, and pronouns have the same two grammatical genders in addition to two natural genders similar to English. Historically...
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    language reform has proposed gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender, such as Spanish. Grammatical gender in Spanish refers to how Spanish...
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  • languages, such as German and Icelandic, have retained the three grammatical genders found in the older forms of all Germanic languages: masculine, feminine...
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    conjugations for every verb. Verbs may inflect for grammatical categories such as person, number, gender, case, tense, aspect, mood, voice, possession, definiteness...
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    distinguish between masculine and feminine grammatical gender. Each noun belongs to one of those two genders. In order to correctly decline any noun and...
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  • Noun class (redirect from Rational gender)
    referent, such as gender, animacy, shape, but such designations are often clearly conventional. Some authors use the term "grammatical gender" as a synonym...
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  • Genderless language (category Grammatical gender)
    language that has no distinctions of grammatical gender—that is, no categories requiring morphological agreement for gender between nouns and associated pronouns...
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  • Noun (section Gender)
    languages common and proper nouns have grammatical gender, typically masculine, feminine, and neuter. The gender of a noun (as well as its number and case...
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    Gender pronouns or personal gender pronouns (often abbreviated as PGP) are the set of pronouns (in English, third-person pronouns) that an individual uses...
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  • fully gender-neutral title. The above applies to gender neutrality in English and in some other languages without grammatical gender (where grammatical gender...
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    with German include the survival of two to three grammatical genders – albeit with few grammatical consequences – as well as the use of modal particles...
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  • scholars agree that Proto-Afroasiatic nouns had grammatical gender, at least two and possibly three grammatical numbers (singular, plural, and possibly dual)...
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  • personal pronouns Gender-neutral pronoun Gender-specific pronoun Generic antecedents Generic you Grammatical conjugation Grammatical number Illeism Personal...
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