Items for "noun class"

Multifunctional agreement patterns in Bantu and the possibility of genderless nouns

It is generally assumed that all nouns belong to a gender in gender languages and that this constitutes a fundamental difference between gender systems and systems of noun classifiers...

Keywords: agreement, animacy, article, Bantu, borrowing, Eton, gender, kin term, noun class, number, proper name, referentiality