Re: [tied] Re: Dating PIE

--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:

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> As far as I know, it's unknown whether Hattic had
> grammatical gender.
> Hurrian (from what little I have at hand) is said
> not to have
> grammatical gender..../.....

the NAIE

> (non-Anatolian Indo-European) feminine gender is an
> innovation, as is
> shown by e.g. the fact that a good number of
> adjectives (the athematic
> ones) are still only marked for animate ~ inanimate.

*****GK: Is the gender reality distinction as between
AIE and NAIE unique in the world's linguistic systems,
i.e. are there other language families which exhibit a
similar innovation as to gender awareness in some
members of the family only as does IE?*****

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