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The gender system of Laal

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

paper
Creator:
Lio
Editor:
Princeton UniversityVol
Publisher:
CCSDAka
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International audience 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], defining four genders: human masculine, human feminine, neuter, and abstract. Gender is covert on nouns; it is marked only on agreeing pronouns and functional words. The morphological marking and structure of the gender system is different in pronouns and functional words. Seven agreement classes are defined by various conflations of gender and number categories in both pronominal forms and functional words.

Visit

shs.hal.science

Languages

Laal

Tags

abstract gender agreement gender human/non-human sex-based genderabstract genderhuman/non-humansex-based genderagreementgender[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics

Licenses

info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess

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