| Data Category: AnimateGender | |
|---|---|
| Key | 3077 |
| PID | http://www.isocat.org/datcat/DC-3077 |
| Type | simple |
| Owner | gold-user |
| Scope | public |
| Is A | /GenderProperty/ |
| 1. Administration Information Section | |
| 1.1 Administration Record | |
| Identifier | AnimateGender |
| Version | 1:0 |
| Registration Status | private |
| Administration Status | private |
| Justification | The GOLD ontology was developed as part of the E-MELD project
funded by the NSF (BCS0729644 and BCS0094934). The concepts were reviewed by 50
noted typologists and documentary linguists at the E-MELD 2005 workshop
(http://emeld.org/workshop/2005/proceeding.html) at Harvard University. They
have since been refined by the GOLD Community
(http://linguistics-ontology.org). |
| Origin | GOLD (General Ontology for Linguistic Description): for the latest
version see http://linguistics-ontology.org |
| 1.1.1 Creation | |
| Creation Date | 2010-06-08 |
| Change Description | Initial import of the GOLD ontology. |
| 1.1.2 Last Change | |
| Last Change Date | 2010-07-16 |
| Change Description | Update to the 2010 version of the GOLD
ontology. |
| 2. Description Section | |
| Profile | Morphosyntax |
| 2.1 Data Element Name Section | |
| Data Element Name | AnimateGender |
| Source | http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/AnimateGender |
[-]2.2 English Language Section | |
| Language | English (en) |
| 2.2.1 Name Section | |
| Name | AnimateGender |
| Name Status | admitted name |
| 2.2.2 Definition Section | |
| Definition | A grammatical gender property assigned to a
class of nouns with animate denotation. In a given language it may include
larger or smaller numbers of nouns which do not meet this semantic
criterion. The animate gender may occur in a two-gender system, with the
other gender being labeled inanimate. However, the animate gender may also
occur in larger inventories (i.e. greater than two values). Examples of
these larger systems are found in Bantu languages (where nouns denoting
humans are included in the animate gender) and in languages of Daghestan
(where the animate gender is typically for non-human animates) [Corbett
1991: 20-32]. |
| Source | [Corbett 1991: 20-32] |
| 2.2.3 Note Section | |
| Note | This concept is part of the General Ontology for
Linguistic Description (GOLD). It is a child concept of
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/GenderProperty. For other relationships among
the concepts see: http://linguistics-ontology.org/gold. |
| Note | To make suggestions with regard to the entire ontology or
individual concepts, please visit the GOLD Community website at
http://linguistics-ontology.org. |