The gender system of Anii

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Fiedler, Ines

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Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät

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More diversity enGENDERed by African languages

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https://doi.org/10.18452/23186

Abstract

The present paper describes the gender system of Anii, a Na-Togo language spoken in Benin and Togo. Anii has a full-fledged and productive gender system that consists of 10 agreement classes. It also provides 10 nominal form classes that are not fully identical with the agreement classes. The assignment of gender follows largely morphological criteria, but the prevalent principle for the current classification system is the division of nouns along the animacy hierarchy.

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This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.