| 单词 | natural gender |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnatural gender natural gender n. Linguistics the gender corresponding to the sex of a noun's referent, esp. as opposed to the noun's grammatical gender; the grammatical classification of words on the basis of the sex (or sexlessness) of their referents; cf. grammatical gender at grammatical adj. 1a, and see the note s.v. gender n. 1. ΚΠ 1867 W. D. Whitney Lang. & Study of Lang. 275 We still keep up a linguistic distinction of natural gender by the use of our generic pronouns of the third person, he, she, and it. 1898 N.E.D. at Gender Mod. English has ‘natural’ as opposed to ‘grammatical’ gender. 1931 G. O. Cume Gram. Eng. Lang. III. xxvii. 549 In English..our nouns follow natural gender. Names of male beings are masculine... The names of female beings are feminine... The names of inanimate things are neuter. 1985 B. Mitchell Old Eng. Syntax I. 193 Self agrees with the personal pronoun and takes, not the gender of the noun, but the sex (natural gender) of the person concerned. 2010 M. V. Van Pelt Eng. Gram. to ace Biblical Hebrew iii. 30 English follows natural gender, meaning that the noun ‘boy’ is masculine, the noun ‘girl’ is feminine, and the noun ‘book’ is neuter. < as lemmas |
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