Timeline for Does the English language have a grammatical gender?
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| S Mar 17, 2016 at 14:17 | answer | added | HillWithSmallFields | timeline score: 0 | |
| S Mar 17, 2016 at 14:17 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Mar 17, 2016 at 11:49 | answer | added | Chris | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 5:22 | answer | added | Maulik V | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 19:41 | answer | added | KRyan | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 17:53 | answer | added | TV's Frank | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 11:38 | comment | added | Steve Melnikoff | Loosely related: english.stackexchange.com/questions/2484/… | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 7:02 | comment | added | Ahmad | languages tend to become simpler over time, for example in Persian there is no "he" and "she", I don't know if thats good or not! maybe sometimes the gender be removed from English too. | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 17:52 | comment | added | TimR | Back in early medieval times when English was a language with declensions, grammatical gender was clearly marked. But English lost most of these declensions during the late medieval period and we have now only the vestiges of grammatical gender. projects.iq.harvard.edu/cb45/pages/… | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 15:30 | answer | added | vlad | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 15:05 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/709757365235617792 | ||
| Mar 15, 2016 at 14:56 | answer | added | ghostarbeiter | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 14:45 | comment | added | Joshua Taylor | "If we are talking about animate objects, like people and animals, defining a gender is easy in most cases." I don't think that's really the case for grammatical gender. For instance, should the grammatical gender of "cat" be male or female? There are both male and female (and neutered!) cats, after all. | |
| S Mar 15, 2016 at 13:57 | history | suggested | psmears | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 13:08 | answer | added | stangdon | timeline score: 48 | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 12:31 | answer | added | Ken Bellows | timeline score: 21 | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 12:18 | history | edited | CowperKettle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 10:15 | comment | added | John Clifford | it used to be but isn't now. Most people nowadays would refer to any inanimate object as "it", commonly referred to as the neutral or neuter pronoun. So it's of neutral gender IMO, rather than having no gender at all, but your mileage may vary (which is why I didn't post this as an answer). | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 10:14 | history | asked | Denis Kulagin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |