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Does English have animate/inanimate distinction?
I know we have the "'S" genitive and the "X of Y" but I don't exactly understand the rules of using these even as a native English speaker and I'm unsure if English makes other ...
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Why did English "man" and Latin "homo" take both the senses "gender-neutral human" and "male adult"?
Why did English "man" and Latin "homo" take both the sense "gender-neutral human" and "male adult"?
According to etymonline.com, English "man", and incidentally Latin "homo" (which originally meant "...
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Do english-speaking people feel grammatical gender of words like "California" or "America" being feminine and "New York" being masculine?
Do english-speaking people feel grammatical gender of words like "California" or "America" being feminine and "New York" being masculine?
Many of geographical names are obviously came from languages ...
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Importance of Genders in English Nouns
I am looking at teaching a computer about grammar which could turn into teaching it sentence analysis and eventually how to formulate a response.
This is the baby steps. I am defining a noun. So far ...
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