Ines Fiedler

Biographic Data

ID8987695
NAMEInes Fiedler
GIVEN NAMESInes
FAMILY NAMEFiedler
SIGNATUREFIEDLER I
AFFILIATIONSHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Restructured Niger-Congo gender systems as another type of concurrent nominal classification

    Open AccessTom Güldemann, Ines FiedlerARTICLEJournal of African Languages and…2022

    Recent research looks increasingly at languages with more than one system of nominal classification and first systematic typological assessments of so-called “concurrent noun classification” exist with a focus on cases involving classifiers and gender. We elaborate on this work by dealing with Niger-Congo languages that have restructured their inherited noun classification in a particular way. The inherited system entailing a strong parallelism b…

  • The two concurrent gender systems of Mba

    Ines Fiedler, Tom Güldemann et al.ARTICLELanguage Typology and Universals2021

    This paper describes the gender system of the Ubangi language Mba, which can be characterized by the co-existence of two different classification systems. The ‘formal agreement’ system is tightly bound with the nominal deriflection system, while the ‘semantic agreement’ system, by contrast, emanates from a tripartite distinction in the language made between masculine humans, other animates, and inanimates. Whereas formal agreement is manifested o…

  • The gender system of Anii

    Ines FiedlerARTICLELanguage Typology and Universals2021

    The present paper describes the gender system of Anii, a Na-Togo language spoken in Benin and Togo. Anii has a full-fledged and productive gender system that consists of 10 agreement classes. It also provides 10 nominal form classes that are not fully identical with the agreement classes. The assignment of gender follows largely morphological criteria, but the prevalent principle for the current classification system is the division of nouns alon…

  • The gender system of Longuda

    Julius-Maximilian Elstermann, Ines Fiedler et al.ARTICLELanguage Typology and Universals2021

    This article describes the gender system of Longuda. Longuda class marking is alliterative and does not distinguish between nominal form and agreement marking. While it thus appears to be a prototypical example of a traditional Niger-Congo “noun-class” system, this identity of gender encoding makes it look morpho-syntactic rather than lexical. This points to a formerly independent status of the exponents of nominal classification, which is simila…

  • More diversity enGendered by African languages

    Open AccessTom Güldemann, Ines FiedlerARTICLELanguage Typology and Universals2021

    We give an overview of current research questions pursued in connection with an ongoing project on nominal classification systems in Africa, with a particular focus on Niger-Congo. We first introduce our cross-linguistically applicable methodological approach which provides new insights into the design of a range of gender systems on the continent. We then apply these ideas to the “noun class” systems of Niger-Congo. We focus on non-canonical phe…

  • Papers on information structure in African languages

    Open AccessInes Fiedler, Anne SchwarzARTICLEZAS Papers in Linguistics2006

    These proceedings, also online available as No. 46 in the ZAS Papers in Linguistics series under http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil have resulted from the International Conference "Focus in African languages" held October 6-8, 2005 at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin. The conference was cooperatively organized by the latter, together with the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsfors…