Re: [tied] Re: Dating PIE

> *****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?*****

The Semitic languages show masculine & feminine, both as grammatical gender,
and as reality-based gender, rather in the way the IE does. Third person
singular verbs are marked for gender. They do not, however, show an neuter
or inanimate gender as far as I am aware.

Peter