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2021-07-08Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.18452/23187
Reassessing gender in Ogbe-Oloma
dc.contributor.authorSchaefer, Ronald P.
dc.contributor.authorEgbokhare, Francis O.
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-06T12:05:48Z
dc.date.available2021-10-06T12:05:48Z
dc.date.issued2021-07-08none
dc.identifier.issn1867-8319
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/24082
dc.description.abstractWe 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 genders, while seventeen nominal form classes frame twenty-five number inflections. Prefix mapping from inflection to gender is non-isomorphic. Mapping is however constrained by syllable shape, CV- versus V-, and alliterative sound quality of prefix consonant, not vowel. In addition, several number inflections trigger agreement in multiple genders leading to one gender that exclusively refers to nouns with human reference.eng
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectagreementeng
dc.subjectEdoideng
dc.subjectgendereng
dc.subjectnominal form classeng
dc.subjectOgbe-Olomaeng
dc.subject.ddc400 Sprachenone
dc.subject.ddc496 Afrikanische Sprachennone
dc.titleReassessing gender in Ogbe-Olomanone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/24082-0
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18452/23187
dc.subject.rvkEP 13260none
dc.subject.rvkEP 13150none
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.pages17none
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
local.edoc.container-year2021none
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone
dc.identifier.eissn2196-7148
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1515/stuf-2021-1038
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleLanguage Typology and Universalsnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume74none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue2none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameDe Gruyter Moutonnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBerlinnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart387none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend403none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journalparttitleMore diversity enGENDERed by African languagesnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journalparteditorTom Güldemann, Ines Fiedlernone

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