(By Greville Corbett): "In Chapters 30 and 31 we have seen how we as linguists analyze gender systems, and establish how many genders there are. The remaining question is how the speaker assigns nouns to those genders. In other words, if a speaker of Russian uses the word kniga ‘book’ or djadja ‘uncle’, how does he or she "know" the gender? Clearly speakers must know the gender in order to be able to make the appropriate agreements. A model of the way in which speakers allot nouns to genders is called a gender assignment system... Assignment may depend on two sorts of information about the noun: its meaning and its form..."