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- Title
A Comparative Study of the Mechanism to Assign Gender in Sizang, Koireng and Tarao.
- Authors
Sarangthem, Bobita; Madhubala, P.
- Abstract
Many languages of the Tibeto-Burman family do not have grammatical gender. Typologically languages may be classified into those which have grammatical gender, for example, Hindi, Assamese, etc. of the Indo-Aryan languages and those which do not have grammatical gender, for example, Sizang, Koireng and Tarao of the Tibeto-Burman family of languages. What these languages (Sizang, Koireng and Tarao) have is merely a system of biological sex reference, and this is necessary only for specific semantic realization of animate nouns. These languages do not assign gender to each and every noun. Although this feature seems to be peripheral to language structure, an investigation into them gives us many insights to understand the complexities of everyday speech, and also enhances the scope of language typology. The present paper attempts to show how these languages use mechanism to signal the sex reference which is necessary for specific semantic realization of animate nouns. These languages do not have grammatical gender.
- Subjects
GRAMMATICAL gender; TIBETO-Burman languages; GENDER differences in language; LANGUAGE &; gender; SINO-Tibetan languages
- Publication
Language in India, 2014, Vol 14, Issue 11, p22
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article