胡壮麟《语言学教程》第四章From_word_to_t.ppt

* 4.2 Gender Such contrasts as “masculine : feminine : neuter”, “animate : inanimate”, etc. for the analysis of word classes. Though there is a correlation between natural gender and grammatical gender, the assignment may seem quite arbitrary in many cases. For instance, in Latin, ignis ‘fire’ is masculine, while flamma ‘flame’ is feminine. * English gender contrast can only be observed in pronouns and a small number of nouns, and, they are mainly of the natural gender type. he: she: it prince: princess author: authoress * In French, gender is manifested also both in adjectives and articl