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Die Genitivflexion von artikellos verwendbaren Eigennamen als syntaktisch konditionierte Allomorphie

Based on Eisenberg's (2000) insight that German has four genders instead of three, genitive singular inflection turns out to be driven by gender alone...

Keywords: gender, proper name, genitive inflection, syntactically conditioned allomorphy, declarative morphology, DP

11/2006 | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Walter de Gruyter
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

10/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter