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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Dear Alex,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>It seems that Mojeño Trinitario (Arawak, Bolivia) shows the pattern you are looking for. There are two terms for ‘older sibling’, and one for ‘younger sibling’. They apply both to male and female referents and are used by both male and female speakers. The three terms are necessarily preceded by a possessive prefix. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>-echovi, -porape ‘older sibling’ (speakers don’t note any difference in meaning, but I haven’t worked on that topic)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>-ati ‘younger sibling’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Please let me know if you want more data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>NB: Mojeño shows a genderlect distinction (Rose 2013), but as I have argued elsewhere (Rose 2015), contrarily to common thought, there is no kinship system that encodes the gender of the speaker (while some encode the gender of the referent or that of the ego).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=ES-BO style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Rose, Françoise. 2013. </span><span lang=ES-BO style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span lang=ES-BO style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Los generolectos del mojeño</span><span lang=ES-BO style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>”</span><span lang=ES-BO style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>, in <i>Liames</i>: 13, 115-134.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Rose, Françoise. 2015. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>On male and female speech and more. A typology of categorical gender indexicality in indigenous South American languages</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>”</span><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>, in <i>International Journal of American Linguistics</i>: 81.4, 495-537.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Very best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Françoise ROSE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Directeur de Recherches 2<sup>ème</sup> classe, CNRS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (CNRS/Université Lyon2)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>16 avenue Berthelot<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>69007 Lyon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>FRANCE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>(33)4 72 72 64 63<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79'>www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/ROSE<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Lingtyp [mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org] <b>De la part de</b> Hedvig Skirgård<br><b>Envoyé :</b> mercredi 19 juillet 2017 01:32<br><b>À :</b> <LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG> <LINGTYP@listserv.linguistlist.org>; Alexandra Marley <alexandra.marley@anu.edu.au>; Kyla Quinn <kyla.quinn@anu.edu.au><br><b>Objet :</b> [Lingtyp] Kinship systems that distinguish age but not gender<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear LINGTYP, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone know of a language that has a distinction in the kinship system for age of referent (younger/older) without also having a distinction for gender of referent? For example, a language that marks siblings as being younger or older to ego without reference to being sister or brother.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The hypothesis is that this doesn't happen/is very rare. We'd like to know if you've come across any examples of this.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm asking for my friend Alex (cc:ed) who is not on the list. 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