LL-L "Gender" 2009.11.03 (02) [EN]

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From: Paul Tatum <ptatum at blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Gender" 2009.10.31 (02) [DE-EN]

Hi all,

 From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com <mailto:sassisch at yahoo.com>>
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> Subject: Gender
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> Thanks, Hanne.
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> There are indeed many Low Saxon nouns with dialectically varying gender.
> Here are a few more:
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>  ....


> In most cases variation involves neuter.
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>
I just found a table of nouns of varying gender in Old Frisian on page 40 of
Cummins, "A Grammar of Old Friesic", which is available on the Internet
Archive. Again the majority of cases involves the neuter.

Cheers, Paul Tatum.

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