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grammatical category which shows difference in whether a word is male/female/neuter or animate/ inanimate. Gender in the linguistics sense only refers to classes of words and how they show their relation in sentences. This is not be confused with the sex related gender (although they often are related in English, this is not so in all languages).
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==Refernces==
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Matthews, P. H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Crystal, David, and David Crystal. The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin, 1999.
  
 
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Revision as of 18:26, 13 November 2009

grammatical category which shows difference in whether a word is male/female/neuter or animate/ inanimate. Gender in the linguistics sense only refers to classes of words and how they show their relation in sentences. This is not be confused with the sex related gender (although they often are related in English, this is not so in all languages).

Refernces

Matthews, P. H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Crystal, David, and David Crystal. The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin, 1999.

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