1. May 2020 FP One Comment Universal 1996: Posted in Universals Archive Universal 1996: Original Note that there are no syntactic systems [of gender assignment] [only semantic, morphological, and phonological systems of gender assignment]. Standardized Gender cannot be assigned on the basis of syntactic properties of nouns (such as, e.g., that of taking prepositional complements). Keywords gender, gender assignment Domain inflection, syntax Type unconditional Status achronic Quality absolute Basis “over 200 languages” from all over the place Source Corbett 1991: 33 Counterexamples Previous Post nonesuch 13 Next Post nonesuch 1 FP View more posts One Comment FP Assumed reason: “… syntactic specifications on nouns are very limited; nouns do not normally require specifications to indicate which syntactic rules they are subjcect to”. 1. May 2020 Comments are closed.
FP Assumed reason: “… syntactic specifications on nouns are very limited; nouns do not normally require specifications to indicate which syntactic rules they are subjcect to”. 1. May 2020
Assumed reason: “… syntactic specifications on nouns are very limited; nouns do not normally require specifications to indicate which syntactic rules they are subjcect to”.