More diversity enGENDERed by African languages
These articles were published in the special issue More diversity enGENDERed by African languages of the journal STUF - Language Typology and Universals (volume 74, issue 2), edited by Tom Güldemann and Ines Fiedler.
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2021-07-08ZeitschriftenartikelThe gender system of Durop This paper presents an analysis of grammatical gender and agreement in Durop, a language of the Upper Cross subgroup of Cross River. The data used are drawn from Kastelein (Kastelein, Bianca. 1994. A phonological and ...
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2021-07-08ZeitschriftenartikelThe gender system of Laal This paper describes the gender system of Laal, a language isolate of Chad. Laal has a strictly semantic, partly sex-based gender system making use of three semantic features: [±human], [masculine/feminine], and [±abstract], ...
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2021-07-08ZeitschriftenartikelReassessing gender in Ogbe-Oloma We re-assess the gender system of Ogbe-Oloma, an Edoid village variety of Nigeria. System exponents are prefixes that define form class and reflect grammatical number. We find that eight agreement classes undergird fourteen ...
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2021-07-08ZeitschriftenartikelThe two concurrent gender systems of Mba This paper describes the gender system of the Ubangi language Mba, which can be characterized by the co-existence of two different classification systems. The ‘formal agreement’ system is tightly bound with the nominal ...
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2021-07-08ZeitschriftenartikelAn areal and typological appraisal of gender in Ju This paper provides an exhaustive description of the gender system in the Tsumkwe Juǀ’hoan variety of Ju (Kx’a), a gender system that is largely insensitive to number and natural sex distinctions. The paper also highlights ...
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2021-07-08ZeitschriftenartikelThe gender system of Khoekhoegowab According to traditional analysis, Khoekhoe(gowab) makes a tripartite distinction between masculine, feminine, and common gender. Based on a statistical analysis of the comprehensive dictionary by Haacke and Eiseb and the ...
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2021-07-08ZeitschriftenartikelMore diversity enGENDERed by African languages: an introduction We give an overview of current research questions pursued in connection with an ongoing project on nominal classification systems in Africa, with a particular focus on Niger-Congo. We first introduce our cross-linguistically ...
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2021-07-08ZeitschriftenartikelThe gender system of Anii The present paper describes the gender system of Anii, a Na-Togo language spoken in Benin and Togo. Anii has a full-fledged and productive gender system that consists of 10 agreement classes. It also provides 10 nominal ...
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2021-07-08ZeitschriftenartikelThe gender system of Noon: insights into the reorganization of agreement This chapter examines the gender and deriflection systems of the Noon language of Senegal. The Noon deriflection system is notable for exhibiting a high number of unprefixed nouns, in contrast with the pervasive gender ...
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2021-07-08ZeitschriftenartikelThe gender system of Longuda This article describes the gender system of Longuda. Longuda class marking is alliterative and does not distinguish between nominal form and agreement marking. While it thus appears to be a prototypical example of a ...
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2021-07-08ZeitschriftenartikelPreface