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Language Contact and Gender in Tetun Dili: What Happens When Austronesian Meets Romance?
Hajek, J; Williams-van Klinken, C. - : UNIV HAWAII PRESS, 2019
Abstract: Tetun Dili is an Austronesian language and one of the two official languages in Timor-Leste, alongside Portuguese with which it has been in contact for centuries. In this detailed study, we describe various aspects of gender in Tetun Dili, in both native and borrowed vocabulary. We identify marked differences between gender marking in native and borrowed Portuguese words, with Tetun prioritizing the feminine, and Portuguese the masculine. We show that through contact with Portuguese, Tetun Dili has also developed “marginal” gender, with grammatical gender agreement being optional but increasingly common for Portuguese loans, mainly in the acrolect. Grammatical agreement is also spreading to a handful of non-Portuguese words, to which there is evidence of incipient grammatical gender assignment. Some comparisons are made with developments in Chamorro and Tagalog, two Austronesian languages heavily influenced by Spanish (closely related to Portuguese), for which gender contact effects have previously been described in some detail. We conclude with a set of more general typological observations.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1353/ol.2019.0003
http://hdl.handle.net/11343/227016
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Language contact and functional expansion in Tetun Dili: The evolution of a new press register
Williams-van Klinken, C; Hajek, J. - : DE GRUYTER MOUTON, 2018
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Tetun nudar lian jornalizmu: Mudansa gramátika liuhosi kontaktu língua [Tetun as a language of journalism: Grammatical change as a result of language contact]
In: New Research on Timor-Leste: A TLSA Research Conference (2018)
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Mixing numeral systems in Timor-Leste
Hajek, J; WILLIAMS-VAN KLINKEN, C. - : Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2018
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