Useful Roles of Grammatical Gender
Ibrihim identified three possible useful roles of grammatical gender:
- In a language with explicit inflections for gender, it is easy to express the natural gender of animate beings.
- Grammatical gender "can be a valuable tool of disambiguation", rendering clarity about antecedents.
- In literature, gender can be used to "animate and personify inanimate nouns".
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