The basic values of the gender grammateme are presented in Table 5.3, "Values of the gender grammateme".
Table 5.3. Values of the gender grammateme
anim |
masculine animate |
inan |
masculine inanimate |
fem |
feminine |
neut |
neuter |
The gender grammateme is a tectogrammatical correlate of the morphological category of gender.
The gender grammateme - just like the number grammateme - is assigned to:
all nodes for semantic nouns (see Section 6.1, "Semantic nouns").
The value of the gender grammateme correspond to that of morphological gender. For example:
děvče [gender=neut] (=girl)
dveře [gender=fem] (=door)
tenhle [gender=anim|inan] (=this)
Viděl jen dva. [gender=anim|inan] (=lit. (He) saw only two)
Oni nepřišli.[gender=anim] (=They didn't come)
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The gender grammateme of personal and possessive first and second person pronouns. The value of the gender grammateme of the first and second person personal and possessive pronouns (these are so called gender-less pronouns) follows from the morphological gender of the node the given pronoun refers to. For example:
Bratr prohlásil: Já tam nejdu. [gender=anim] (=My brother said: I am not going there) (the value of the gender grammateme of the pronoun follows from the gender of bratr)
For more details, see Section 6.1.3, "Definite pronominal semantic nouns: personal pronouns".