Lexical-grammatical category, which in most languages of the world divides the nominal lexicon into formally and/or semantically motivated groups, the number of classes varying just as the kind of criteria for the division (Royen 1929; Corbett 1992)....

Broadly defined, any classification of nouns according to semantic aspects such as animate/ inanimate ( animate vs inanimate), concrete ( concrete noun), abstract ( abstract noun), masculine/feminine/neuter, dimensions, consistency. More narrowly...

Nominal subcategories referring to the distinction between ‘living’ creatures (humans, animals) and ‘non-living’ things. This distinction, which is significant in many languages, is of importance in English in the use of the...

// n. 1. In a language with gender, the property of a noun which can be assigned to more than one gender, with an appropriate and predictable difference of meaning. For example, the French nouns enfant ‘child’, collègue...

In linguistics, grammatical genders, sometimes also called noun classes, are classes of nouns reflected in the behavior of associated words; every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be very few which belong to several classes at...