Looking for gender/noun class info

[anke]

Does anybody here know a good website with info how different noun classes can manifest in a language?

I mean, there's as one possibility different suffixes for nouns.
And/or different articles ("the" and "a" having one translation per noun class)
Noun-adjective agreement.
Noun-verb agreement.
Different pronouns, including demonstrative pronouns.

And I don't know what I'm missing.

I don't know, I guess I'm kinda looking for a collection of examples.

Comments

[anke]

mh, but those quitaris are differently cut, aren't they? So you'd have two different things that could have two different words, anyway, without having a general rule that an owned object must grammatically agree with the owner. Those could be differentiated by gender/noun class, if you make one for useful and one for unuseful humans/things/whatever.

zompist of gender
incl. "It gives language (in John Lawler's terms) another dimension to seep into. In French, for instance, there are many words that vary only in gender: port/porte, fil/file, grain/graine, point/pointe, sort/sorte, etc. Changing gender must have once been an easy way to create a subtle variation on a word."
port/porte = harbour/door, grain/graine = grain/seed
German has a few of those, too, e.g. der See (the lake) vs die See (the ocean)
(all examples here male first, female second word)

[aldersprig]

Okay, you have a point on the quitari (note to self: learn to spell your own words).

Hrrm. This makes a fun way to evolve a language, I think.

Thanks!