Gender agreement in Chicewa

Gender agreement in Chicewa

Gender in Chichewa is described as a complete system. First the basic data on gender agreement are presented and it is shown how the available agreement markers correlate with the noun genders (and how the system has changed in the recent past). There follows a discussion of interesting phenomena wh...

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Autores principales: Greville G. Corbett, Alfred D. Mtenje
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Publicado: LibraryPress@UF 1987
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Chichewa
gender
agreement
noun class
language change
conjunction
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:62c624f8366748c291578173ecb7b5252021-11-19T03:55:08ZGender agreement in Chicewa10.32473/sal.v18i1.1074790039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/62c624f8366748c291578173ecb7b5251987-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107479https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XGender in Chichewa is described as a complete system. First the basic data on gender agreement are presented and it is shown how the available agreement markers correlate with the noun genders (and how the system has changed in the recent past). There follows a discussion of interesting phenomena which do not fit easily into the main gender system. Next structures involving conjoined noun phrases headed by nouns from various genders are analysed in detail. The rules required to account for the Chichewa system prove particularly complex; rules proposed for other Bantu languages do not cover all the Chichewa facts. The data are important for comparative work within Bantu and for typological claims which go beyond. O.Greville G. CorbettAlfred D. MtenjeLibraryPress@UFarticleChichewagenderagreementnoun classlanguage changeconjunctionPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 18, Iss 1 (1987)
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FR
topic Chichewa
gender
agreement
noun class
language change
conjunction
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
spellingShingle Chichewa
gender
agreement
noun class
language change
conjunction
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Greville G. Corbett
Alfred D. Mtenje
Gender agreement in Chicewa
description Gender in Chichewa is described as a complete system. First the basic data on gender agreement are presented and it is shown how the available agreement markers correlate with the noun genders (and how the system has changed in the recent past). There follows a discussion of interesting phenomena which do not fit easily into the main gender system. Next structures involving conjoined noun phrases headed by nouns from various genders are analysed in detail. The rules required to account for the Chichewa system prove particularly complex; rules proposed for other Bantu languages do not cover all the Chichewa facts. The data are important for comparative work within Bantu and for typological claims which go beyond. O.
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