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Schapper, Antoinette (2015). Neuter gender in the languages of Aru. Wacana, 16 (1). S. 1 - 27. DEPOK: UNIV INDONESIA, FAC HUMANITIES. ISSN 2407-6899

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Abstract

This paper examines gender agreement in three little-known languages of the Aru Islands and places them within the larger pattern of neuter gender in eastern Indonesia. For each language, I look first at the variety of agreement targets that are controlled by gendered nouns. Secondly, I look at the semantics of nouns that control agreement. I show that whilst having a strongly semantic base involving animacy, gender in Aru languages is a grammatical category in which many nouns denoting certain types of entities that lack discernable biological animacy are assigned to the same gender as that of animate referents. I conclude by considering the system of gender in proto-Aru.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schapper, Antoinette UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-414902
DOI:	10.17510/wjhi.v16i1.364
Journal or Publication Title:	Wacana
Volume:	16
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 1 - 27
Date:	2015
Publisher:	UNIV INDONESIA, FAC HUMANITIES
Place of Publication:	DEPOK
ISSN:	2407-6899
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language EASTERN INDONESIA Multiple languages Humanities, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/41490