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Titel: A typology of northwestern Bantu gender systems
VerfasserIn: Di Garbo, Francesca
Verkerk, Annemarie
Sprache: Englisch
Titel: Linguistics
Bandnummer: 60
Heft: 4
Seiten: 1169–1239
Verlag/Plattform: De Gruyter
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Freie Schlagwörter: agreement hierarchy
animacy distinctions
Bantu languages
grammatical gender
language evolution and change
DDC-Sachgruppe: 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Dokumenttyp: Journalartikel / Zeitschriftenartikel
Abstract: Northwestern Bantu is the most linguistically diverse area of the Bantu-speaking world. Several unusual grammatical gender systems are reported for this area, but there has been a lack of comprehensive comparative studies. This article is a typological investigation of northwestern Bantu gender systems based on a sample of 179 languages. We study the distribution of various patterns of animacy-based agreement in the languages of the sample and in relationship with the Agreement Hierarchy. We find that animacy-based agreement is widespread in northwestern Bantu. If restricted to animate nouns, it tends to coexist in stable variation with syntactic agreement. When generalized to both animate and inanimate nouns, animacy-based agreement appears to contribute to the erosion of gender marking. In line with the prediction of the Agreement Hierarchy, we find that animacy-based agreement is prevalent with verbs and pronouns. Within the noun phrase, it spreads in ways that are suggestive of a hierarchy of syntactic integration between nouns and adnominal modifiers, which had gone unnoticed in the existing literature. These results have important implications for current models of Bantu gender systems and shed new light on animacy effects in the diachrony of gender more generally.
DOI der Erstveröffentlichung: 10.1515/ling-2020-0217
URL der Erstveröffentlichung: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2020-0217/html
Link zu diesem Datensatz: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-374964
hdl:20.500.11880/33917
http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-37496
ISSN: 1613-396X
0024-3949
Datum des Eintrags: 5-Okt-2022
Bezeichnung des in Beziehung stehenden Objekts: Supplementary Material
In Beziehung stehendes Objekt: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2020-0217/downloadAsset/suppl/j_ling-2020-0217_suppl.zip
Fakultät: P - Philosophische Fakultät
Fachrichtung: P - Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie
Professur: P - Jun.-Prof. Dr. Annemarie Verkerk
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