The gender system of Anii
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21820008 |
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| Authors | Ines Fiedler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 369-385 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Typology and Universals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1867-8319 • E-ISSN: 2196-7148 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/stuf-2021-1037 |
| OpenAlex | W3181812896 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
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 along the animacy hierarchy
Animacy · Genealogy · Geography · Grammatical Gender · Hierarchy · Linguistics · Noun · Noun phrase · Political science · Sociology · Typology · Anthropology · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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