Gender and Noun Class

[David Beck]

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 Aspects of the Theory of Morphology where he makes the case for the two being at opposite ends of a continuum. It might help Don make up his mind.

David

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