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Abstract:
This paper reviews the treatment of gender systems in Niger-Congo languages. Our discussion is based on a consistent methodological approach, to be presented in §1, which employs four analytical concepts, namely agreement class, gender, nominal form class, and deriflection and which, as we argue, are applicable within Niger- Congo and beyond. Due to the strong bias toward the reconstruction of Bantu and wider Benue-Congo, Niger-Congo gender systems tend to be analyzed by means of a philologically biased and partly inadequate approach that is outlined in §2. This framework assumes in particular a consistent alliterative one-to-one mapping of agreement and nominal form classes conflated under the philological concept of “noun class”. One result of this is that gender systems are recurrently deduced merely from the number-mapping of nominal form classes in the nominal deri- flection system rather than from the agreement behavior of noun lexemes. We show, however, that gender and deriflection systems are in ...
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agreement; deriflection; gender; Niger-Congo languages; noun classes
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3462761 https://zenodo.org/record/3462761
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