28.3778, Books: PLURAL GENDER: Tsegaye

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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:52:44
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: PLURAL GENDER: Tsegaye

 


Title: PLURAL GENDER 
Subtitle: Behavioral evidence for plural as a value of Cushitic gender with reference
to Konso 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/plural-gender 


Author: Mulugeta Tarekegne Tsegaye

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932441 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

This dissertation presents a psycholinguistic study on the processing of
gender and number in Konso, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, in which there
appears to be a third value for gender besides masculine and feminine. This
property has given rise to two competing analyses of this third class: as a
gender (a plural gender) similar to masculine and feminine, or as a number
similar to pluralia tantum in many languages. The dissertation aims to
investigate the psychological reality of the plural class as realized on
definite markers and verbal inflections in Konso. Series of picture-word
experiments compared the processing of the plural class with the processing of
masculine and feminine genders. Overall, the results of the experiments
demonstrate that the nouns in the plural class are processed in the same way
as the masculine and feminine gender nouns. This provides evidence for the
analysis of the plural class as a value of gender and not number in the
language. The dissertation also provides evidence that bound gender-marked
morphemes are selected competitively as shown by the data from simple-picture
naming task during bound morpheme naming in Konso. The dissertation extends
the psycholinguistic investigation of gender beyond Indo-European languages
and introduces psycholinguistic approaches into the study of Cushitic gender
and number in fieldwork settings, outside the standard laboratories.

The dissertation will be of interest to specialists in Cushitic languages, in
the psycholinguistics of gender, and in gender and number typology. It will be
an important base for fieldworkers who would like to conduct field-based
psycholinguistic work.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Konso (kxc)


Written In: English  (eng)

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