OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1262938

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Title:		Word-markers: Toward a morphosyntactic description of the Gorwaa noun
		20181227b
Date:		2018-12-27
Description:		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.
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Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1262938
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1262938%23
Subject:		Research Output
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Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1262938
DateStamp:		2019-06-20
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Citation:		n.a. 2018-12-27. Endangered Languages Archive.