Feature Focus - Gender, Class, and Classifiers

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Music: Hard Boiled - Kevin Macleod


Sources:


Aikhenvald, Alexandra. (2006). Classifiers and Noun Classes: Semantics. Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. 10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/01111-1.

Audring, J. Gender assignment and gender agreement: Evidence from pronominal gender languages. Morphology 18, 93–116 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-009-91...

Seifart, Frank. (2010). Nominal Classification. Language and Linguistics Compass. 4. 719-736. 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2010.00194.x.


0:00 Campfire
0:58 Intro
2:57 Classifiers
5:18 Evolution of gender
7:31 Gender distinctions and assignment
10:04 Functions of gender
12:11 Summary