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Title Reassessing gender in Ogbe-Oloma | ||
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http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/24082; http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/23187 | ||
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Date 2021 | ||
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Author(s) Schaefer, Ronald P.; Egbokhare, Francis O. | ||
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Abstract 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 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. - Peer Reviewed | ||
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Subject(s) agreement; Edoid; gender; nominal form class; Ogbe-Oloma; 400 Sprache; 496 Afrikanische Sprachen; EP 13260; EP 13150; ddc:400; ddc:496 | ||
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Language eng | ||
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Publisher Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | ||
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Type of publication article; doc-type:article; publishedVersion | ||
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Format application/pdf | ||
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Rights http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | ||
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Identifier 1867-8319; 10.1515/stuf-2021-1038; urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/24082-0; 2196-7148 | ||
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