Comparative Concept: gender/class (sem)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
gender/class (sem)
| Typ | meaning (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | gender/class • gender • class |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | gender/class (sem) |
Umbrella
Hierarchy
Definition
a semantic category that is expressed as an indexation feature, and covers both distinctions based primarily on sex and animacy ('gender') and distinctions based on animacy, sex, and various semantic properties of inanimate – or at least nonhuman – objects. (Section 4.4.2)