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Harvey, Andrew:
Word-markers : Toward a morphosyntactic description of the Gorwaa noun.
In: SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics.
Vol. 19
(2018)
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- pp. 49-89.
Abstract in another language
Many languages are said to possess ‘gender’, that is, a morphosyntactic system in which nouns induce formal marking on other words beyond the noun itself (adjectives, verbs, etc.). Gorwaa (gow; South-Cushitic; Tanzania) possesses a gender system which is interrelated with number in a complex manner. Following the line of reasoning that biological (semantic) sex, grammatical (syntactic) gender, and (morphological) form-class are “interrelated but autonomous domains of linguistic generalization” set out in Harris’ (1991) examination of Spanish, and establishing that number and gender are interrelated in a complex manner, this paper considers the morphophonological word-markers of Gorwaa, a language whose nominal morphology is considerably different from that of Spanish. Following a discussion of gender and number in Gorwaa, all word-markers and their associated gender and number values are identified. In addition to being a useful exercise in arranging the empirical data, this paper sheds light on some surprising surface patterns of a little-studied language.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | Morphology; Afroasiatic; Gorwaa; Gender; Number; Word-markers |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Junior Professor African Languages and the Construction of Knowledge > Junior Professor African Languages and the Construction of Knowledge - Juniorprof. Dr. Andrew Harvey Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Junior Professor African Languages and the Construction of Knowledge |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 490 Other languages |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2022 12:08 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2023 09:25 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/70160 |