Talk:Conlang/Intermediate/Grammar/Nouns

Other morphosyntactic alignments
Should the "Case" section of this page say something about other morphosyntactic alignments other than nominative/accusative? -- ergative, active, tripartite...? Or save that exclusively for the Advanced section? I'm inclined to say a little about it here, with a cross-reference to the appropriate page in the Advanced section. --Jim Henry (talk) 14:51, 26 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I've been wondering about ergative etc. A similar situation arose over at /Intermediate/Sounds/Phones, where it only mentioned height and backness.  I didn't want to get into a lot of fancy stuff that feels Advanced, but it didn't seem right that a reader could go through the Intermediate section and then get blown away trying to read discussions of the subject because they haven't been exposed at all to terms like rounding and R-coloring.  So I tried (not, perhaps, as skillfully as I'd like) to touch briefly on each of several such terms, leaving the details for the Advanced section (and I have a list of such things to touch on similarly under consonants, when I find time).


 * I'd suggest keeping the detail fairly minimal. Perhaps a few words about ergative, and mention the names of a few others?  --Pi zero (talk) 16:11, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Does Greek no longer have gender?
Re "(e.g. Greek and Latin had words for "child" in the neuter gender as well as many words for inanimate things in the masculine and feminine genders)."

Are you saying Greek no longer has this feature?

Thisisnotatest (discuss • contribs) 12:01, 13 December 2015 (UTC)