Neuter gender in the languages of Aru
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6174646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antoinette Schapper (0000-0001-6269-4667, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-1 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1411-2272 • E-ISSN: 2407-6899 |
| Publisher | Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17510/wjhi.v16i1.364 |
| OpenAlex | W2083377116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
This paper examines gender agreement in three little-known languages of the Aru Islands and places them within the larger pattern of “neuter gender” in eastern Indonesia. For each language, I look first at the variety of agreement targets that are controlled by gendered nouns. Secondly, I look at the semantics of nouns that control agreement. I show that whilst having a strongly semantic base involving animacy, gender in Aru languages is a grammatical category in which many nouns denoting certain types of entities that lack discernable biological animacy are assigned to the same gender as that of animate referents. I conclude by considering the system of gender in proto-Aru
Animacy · Grammatical Gender · Linguistics · Noun · Semantics (computer science · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |