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Title The gender system of Longuda
Full text http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/23779; http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/23184
Date 2021
Author(s) Elstermann, Julius-Maximilian; Fiedler, Ines; Güldemann, Tom
Abstract 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 traditional Niger-Congo 'noun-class' system, this identity of gender encoding makes it look morpho-syntactic rather than lexical. This points to a formerly independent status of the exponents of nominal classification, which is similar to a classifier system and thus less canonical. Both types of class marking hosts involve two formally and functionally differing allomorphs, which inform the historical reconstruction of Longuda noun classification in various ways. - Peer Reviewed
Subject(s) Adamawa; agreement; deriflection; gender; noun class; reconstruction; 400 Sprache; 496 Afrikanische Sprachen; EP 16771; ddc:400; ddc:496
Language eng
Publisher Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Type of publication article; doc-type:article; publishedVersion
Format application/pdf
Rights http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Identifier 1867-8319; 10.1515/stuf-2021-1035; urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/23779-1; 2196-7148
Repository Berlin - Humboldt University of Berlin
Added to C-A: 2021-08-04;10:38:31