<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Personally, I've always favoured using "noun class" as the general term and "gender" a for type of noun class, for many of the reasons given above. However, for those interested, Igor Mel’čuk has a detailed and very informative discussion of the issue in his <i>Aspects of the Theory of Morphology</i> where he makes the case for the two being at opposite ends of a continuum. It might help Don make up his mind.<div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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