Languages with grammatical gender usually have two to four different genders, but some are attested with up to 20.
Common gender divisions include masculine and feminine; masculine, feminine, and neuter; or 展开

There are three main ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders:
• according … 展开

Related languages need not assign the same gender to a noun: this shows that gender can vary across related languages. Conversely, unrelated languages that are in contact can impact how a borrowed noun is assigned gender, with either the borrowing or the donor … 展开

• Gender agreement in binomial nomenclature
• Gender-neutral language
• Gender neutrality in genderless languages
• Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender 展开

Grammatical gender can be realized as inflection and can be conditioned by other types of inflection, especially number inflection, where the … 展开

It is possible for a noun to have more than one gender. Such gender shifts are sometimes correlated with meaning shifts, and sometimes yield doublets with no difference in meaning. … 展开

Grammatical gender is a common phenomenon in the world's languages. A typological survey of 174 languages revealed that over one fourth of them had grammatical gender. Gender systems rarely overlap with numerical classifier systems. Gender and … 展开