LL-L "Morphology" 2002.08.20 (06) [E]

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From: <burgdal32 at mac.com>
Subject: LL-L "Morphology" 2002.07.29 (02) [E]

> From: "Mathieu. van Woerkom" <Mathieu.vanWoerkom at student.kun.nl>
> Subject: morphology
>
> Last week, Gabriele Kahn wrote:
>
>> yes, surprisingly, gender is still relevant in Dutch!
>> Take a simple sentence like: "This is the door.
>> It is open". In Dutch that would be: "Dit is de
>> deur." And NOW you need to know the gender in order to
>> find out whether you should say "Hij staat open" or
>> "Zij staat open" (i.e., "he" or "she" is open)!!
>
> Yes indeed, but nowadays the common Dutch speaker
> (at least in the Netherlands) wouldn't know whether a
> door is masculine or feminin. It's easy to see it is not
> neutral (neutral = het), but what then?
The relevance of knowing and using the gender of a word is not a
question
for the common Dutch speaker in Belgium. Almost everybody uses the right
gender and feels immediately if somebody is wrong or not. That's a
difference comparing to the Netherlands. Nobody shall use "he" for a
door,
I'm sure of that.I suppose it has everything to do with  the frequent
use of
our native tongue.
Greatings,
Luc Vanbrabant
Oekene

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