Reassessing gender in Ogbe-Oloma
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21820032 |
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| Authors | Ronald P Schaefer (0000-0003-4053-3082, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, corresponding author), Francis O Egbokhare (0000-0003-0577-1288, University of Ibadan) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 387-403 |
| 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-2021-1038 |
| OpenAlex | W3179834773 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
We re-assess the gender system of Ogbe-Oloma, an Edoid village variety of Nigeria. System exponents are prefixes that define form class and reflect grammatical number. We find that eight agreement classes undergird fourteen genders, while seventeen nominal form classes frame twenty-five number inflections. Prefix mapping from inflection to gender is non-isomorphic. Mapping is however constrained by syllable shape, CV- versus V-, and alliterative sound quality of prefix consonant, not vowel. In addition, several number inflections trigger agreement in multiple genders leading to one gender that exclusively refers to nouns with human reference
Consonant · Grammatical Gender · Inflection · Linguistics · Noun · Prefix · Statistics · Syllable · Vowel · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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