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genders. These two languages belong to the same language family, Indo-European, so that with the ... more genders. These two languages belong to the same language family, Indo-European, so that with the exception of gender number, they should hav e many common characteristics. What Is Gender? Ge nder , as mentioned above, is a grammatica l category concerning the categorization of nouns of a language into groups. However, gender is not the only phenomenon of this type. According to Dixon (1986) there are two types of linguistic classification : first, the lexicosyntactic phenomenon, which he calls " noun c l ass ificati o n " (including num era l c lass ifiers), and second, the grammatical category of "noun class" (including most types of gender systems). Gender and other kinds of noun classes are defined by: l. Size: There is a small number of noun class sets in a language (usually, from 2 to around 20). 2. Morphological status: Noun classes are obl igator ily marked by inflection and , therefore, found only in agglutinative or inflectional languages. 3. Grammatical use: The inflection of noun c lasses is usually applied to the noun itself and also concord ially applied to other words in the sentence, such as demonstratives, adjectives, or verbs J) cho.tfi /aRka jaega small(MAS) child(MAS) will-go(MAS) 'the small boy will go. ' 14 2) cho.u laRki jaegi small(FEM) child(FEM) will-go(FEM) 'the small girl will go.'

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genders. These two languages belong to the same language family, Indo-European, so that with the ... more genders. These two languages belong to the same language family, Indo-European, so that with the exception of gender number, they should hav e many common characteristics. What Is Gender? Ge nder , as mentioned above, is a grammatica l category concerning the categorization of nouns of a language into groups. However, gender is not the only phenomenon of this type. According to Dixon (1986) there are two types of linguistic classification : first, the lexicosyntactic phenomenon, which he calls " noun c l ass ificati o n " (including num era l c lass ifiers), and second, the grammatical category of "noun class" (including most types of gender systems). Gender and other kinds of noun classes are defined by: l. Size: There is a small number of noun class sets in a language (usually, from 2 to around 20). 2. Morphological status: Noun classes are obl igator ily marked by inflection and , therefore, found only in agglutinative or inflectional languages. 3. Grammatical use: The inflection of noun c lasses is usually applied to the noun itself and also concord ially applied to other words in the sentence, such as demonstratives, adjectives, or verbs J) cho.tfi /aRka jaega small(MAS) child(MAS) will-go(MAS) 'the small boy will go. ' 14 2) cho.u laRki jaegi small(FEM) child(FEM) will-go(FEM) 'the small girl will go.'