
Conlangery SHORTS #16: Gender Assignment
Conlangery Podcast
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What Is the Semantic Residue?
The idea of the semantic residue and how these things are assigned. Corbett also talks about this is that you can also end up having, you know, situations where things do not match with the semantic gender even when they probably should. So there's the hybrid nouns. Another thing I will mention very briefly before we go is he has a very short discussion of animate and animate distinctions in like a Jupyye, other sort of Native American languages.
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