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The gender system of Laal

Florian Lionnet

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This paper describes the gender system of Laal, a language isolate of Chad. Laal has a strictly semantic, partly sex-based gender system making use of three semantic features: [±human], [masculine/feminine], and [±abstract], defining four genders: human masculine, human feminine, neuter, and abstract. Gender is covert on nouns; it is marked only on agreeing pronouns and functional words. The morphological marking and structure of the gender system is different in pronouns and functional words. Seven agreement classes are defined by various conflations of gender and number categories in both pronominal forms and functional words.
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halshs-04370649, version 1 (03-01-2024)

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Florian Lionnet. The gender system of Laal. STUF, 2021, 74 (2), pp.241-262. ⟨10.1515/stuf-2021-1031⟩. ⟨halshs-04370649⟩
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