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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">To me, color-based noun classification seems to be quite unreasonable, because color is not a stable, inherent property of animated entities. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Bingfu Lu</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Linguistic department</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Beijing Language University </div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 06:45:38 PM GMT+8, Ponrawee Prasertsom <ponrawee.pra@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpd6d11b99yiv4315077150"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I am looking for a counterexample/or near-counterexample to the following generalization:</div><div><br></div><div>- There is no language in which genders/noun classes* are motivated by the color of the object (i.e. no "white entities" gender etc.)</div><div><br></div><div>I am primarily concerned with genders/noun classes in Corbett's sense, i.e. they have to trigger agreement, but I would be grateful for any related pointers/works.<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="ydpd6d11b99yiv4315077150gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px;">Ponrawee Prasertsom</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Graduate Student</div><div>Department of Linguistics</div><div><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px;">Faculty of Arts, </span>Chulalongkorn University</div><div>Bangkok, Thailand</div></div></div></div></div>
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