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 GruyterIt 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