singularmleténeuter

Singularmleténeuter is a term used in linguistic theory and conlang design to describe a hypothetical system in which the singular form of nouns bears a neuter gender across agreement categories. The label blends “singular” and “neuter” and is used to explore how number and gender interact in morphosyntax, rather than to describe a widely attested natural-language pattern.

Scope and motivation: In this hypothetical system, determiners, adjectives, and verbs that agree with nouns would display neuter morphology in the singular. The feature can be divorced from a noun’s semantic gender or tied to a particular noun class, and is usually treated as experimental or typological.

Illustrative examples: In a constructed language using singularmleténeuter, a singular noun such as luma might take a neuter determiner and a neuter adjective: ta luma nevra, meaning “the bright light.” In the plural, agreement would take a different pattern, depending on the language’s design. These examples are schematic and illustrate potential morphosyntactic behavior.

Relationship to theory: The idea is discussed in theoretical discussions of gender-number alignment and in conlang communities. It is not widely attested in natural languages and remains a hypothetical option for modeling variation in agreement systems and the interaction of syntax and semantics.

See also: Grammatical gender, Grammatical number, Morphology, Language typology, Constructed language.