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What's the gender of "nice" in "Mary is a nice person"?
I assume your question is not why the author of a grammar would state a fact about a language when no known languages act contrarily, it is whether any languages act contrarily. I don't know why you ...
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What's the gender of "nice" in "Mary is a nice person"?
I agree that possibly in no language it works the other way, but consider the following.
In Russian there are nouns of common gender. This means they can be masculine or feminine depending on the ...
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Why do I intuitively seem to know the gender of inanimate objects?
This page gives some heuristics for predicting gender in Hindi. It doesn't purport to work 100% of the time, but a number of the rules are historically credible, and I have seen similar heuristics for ...
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