Sentence:  To understand this title one needs to know that, in his brief description of <WSD>gender</WSD> in Algonquian, Bloomfield (1946:94) listed various exceptional animates including 'raspberry' but not 'strawberry'. / ... / In Algonquian languages, given the full morphology of a noun, one can predict whether it belongs to the animate or inanimate <WSD>gender</WSD> ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate. (from 14th c.)