Neuter Gender ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/NeuterGender


Thing
      |_ Abstract
            |_ Linguistic Property
                  |_ Morphosyntactic Property
                        |_ Gender Property
                              |_ Neuter Gender

Definition:

A gender property established on the basis of agreement, to which nouns may be assigned, either by a semantic rule, if they belong to the semantic residue of the assignment system, or by a formal rule, if assignment depends on inflectional class membership. Typically, this means that the neuter gender may cover some inanimates and possibly some portion of lower order animates. Note: Although in familiar Indo-European languages the term neuter gender may be part of a system with three or less values, it can be used for systems containing more than three gender values (e.g. Bininj Gunwok).



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nov-oetaksi
new-N.SG.NOMtaxi.N.SG.NOM
a new taxi
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kun-warddekun-mak
IV-rockN-good
good rock

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