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  • From: David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] [B-Greek] Gender
  • Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:48:50 +1000

Have a look at the following references:

Corbett, Greville G. 1991. Gender. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Corbett, Greville G. 2005. “Sex-Based and Non-Sex-Based Gender Systems.” Pages 130-133 in The World Atlas of Language Structures. Edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Corbett, Greville G. 2005. “Systems of Gender Assignment.” Pages 134-137 in The World Atlas of Language Structures. Edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


The following references deal with Nunggubuyu, an Australian Aboriginal language:

Heath, Jeffrey. 1975. “Some Functional Relationships in Grammar.” Language 51: 89-104.
Heath, Jeffrey. 1980. “Nunggubuyu Deixis, Anaphora, and Culture.” Chicago Linguistic Society 16/2: 151-165.
Heath, Jeffrey. 1983. “Referential Tracking in Nunggubuyu (Australia).” Pages 129-149 in Switch-Reference and Universal Grammar: Proceedings of a Symposium on Switch Reference and Universal Grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981. Edited by John Haiman and Pamela Munro. Typological Studies in Language 2. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Heath, Jeffrey. 1984. Functional Grammar of Nunggubuyu. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies 53. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

Randall Buth's point regarding pronouns is covered in the following:

Bhat, D. N. S. 2004. Pronouns. Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cysouw, Michael. 2001. “The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking.” PhD diss., Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen.
Helmbrecht, Johannes. 2004. “Personal Pronouns: Form, Function, and Grammaticalization.” Habilitationschrift, University of Erfurt.
Siewierska, Anna. 2004. Person. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


Regards,
David Kummerow.



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Subject:
Re: [b-hebrew] [B-Greek] Gender
From:
"Kevin Riley" <klriley AT alphalink.com.au>
Date:
Tue, 22 May 2007 12:31:30 +1000 (AUS Eastern Standard Time)
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-------Original Message------- From: Randall Buth Date: 21/05/2007 5:05:45 PM My understanding is that there are many multi-gender languages with Men and women together. Iver can correct me, since I never spoke Swahili, but I think that people,men, women, and children all went Into the same grammatical gender class. I speak a Nilo-Saharan Language that is not only mono-noun-class, it is mono-pronoun with One pronoun for he-she-it. Randall Buth *********************************
Yes, there are languages with men and women in the same class - any language
with a "human" class will do that. I was wondering how common it is, and if
there is any pattern to it. I tried to find information on Australian
languages with noun classes, but could not find that specific info. As the
genders are almost all [AFAIK] based on generic qualifiers [like the Asian
classifiers] and some include a word for 'human', and some for 'human woman'
it is possible that not all distinguish men and women in terms of gender. Perhaps we cannot understand gender simply as a universal construct, but
need to take into account how it arises. One explanation of why all birds
are feminine in one language was that birds are really the spirits of women,
therefore all birds, whatever their sex, are feminine. All other non-human
animates, regardless of their sex, are masculine. A division into masculine
feminine, neuter and edible non-flesh food classes complicates a comparison
with Greek :) . I still think the best course with Greek is to stress that
grammatical gender has no direct relationship with sex. Kevin Riley




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