Nominal gender is based on sex, such as masculine/feminine, such that words like <i>man</i> are masculine, as in Italian <i>uom-o</i> ‘man’ with masculine –o ending, and words like <i>woman</i> are feminine, as in Italian <i>donn-a</i> ‘woman’ with feminine –a ending. This property applies to full NPs.

<br><br><b>Reference</b><br>
Corbett, Greville G. 2008. Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems.
In Haspelmath et al. 2008, chapter 31.
Available online at <a href="http://wals.info/feature/31">http://wals.info/feature/31</a href>.
Accessed on 2008-07-17.