The Preconceptual Basis of Noun Class (Gender)
Noun class is widely seen as “standing out” from other morphosyntactic categories in having a basis in ontological beliefs, or a ‘semantic core’. The consequence of this view is that noun classes in natural languages frequently do not cohere semantically. Here I motivate an aspectual alternat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2022-08-01
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Series: | Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/6371 |