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- Title
The gender system of Durop.
- Authors
Connell, Bruce
- Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of grammatical gender and agreement in Durop, a language of the Upper Cross subgroup of Cross River. The data used are drawn from Kastelein (Kastelein, Bianca. 1994. A phonological and grammatical sketch of DuRop. Leiden: University of Leiden Scriptie), whose analysis treats gender as the singular – plural pairings of nouns different from the present approach. Kastelein identifies eight concord classes (agreement classes); these form the basis of gender in Durop in the present analysis; as many as 24 agreement classes are identified here. The various systems comprising nominal classification, agreement and gender in Durop are compared and discussed. The agreement system comprises three subsystems of differing numbers of agreement classes.
- Subjects
GENDER; RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT te Leiden; GRAMMATICAL gender; CONCORD; NOUNS
- Publication
STUF: Language Typology & Universals, 2021, Vol 74, Issue 2, p405
- ISSN
1867-8319
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/stuf-2021-1039