Looking for gender/noun class info
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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.
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.
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Date: 2011-11-27 01:02 am (UTC)I generally think of words as having four potential functions. One, generally considered verbs, represent changes in things (or lack of changes). Two, generally considered nouns, represent the things being affected. Three, generally considered adjectives or adverbs, are modifiers. And four are purely grammatical, like prepositions.
So, essentially, anything that the nouns could affect, grammatically, are anything that is directly grammatically related to the noun in the sentence, which are generally anything in groups one, three or four. Verbs happening to the nouns, modifiers modifying the nouns, prepositions et al. indicating the grammatical function of the nouns.
In short, the only thing I know of that can't be modified grammatically by a noun's gender/class is another noun.
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Date: 2011-11-27 05:07 pm (UTC)I'm having some trouble wrapping my head around syntax stuff yet, so I'll let it perlocate a bit longer.