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Linglib.Fragments.CoastalMarind.Gender

Coastal Marind gender #

This file records the four genders of Coastal Marind (Anim, South New Guinea), the forms of words that agree with them, and nouns whose form varies with gender, after Olsson.

Gender I holds male humans, gender II female humans and all animals, and genders III and IV divide the inanimates. Demonstratives, a few adjectives and some postpositions agree by a stem-final gender vowel, e, u, a, i for genders I–IV, with syncretisms particular to each target. On these forms only genders I and II distinguish number (injective_demonstrative_iff), and their plural is the singular form of gender IV (Gender.pluralGender). The suppletive adjective 'small' distinguishes number in every gender (injective_small), and on it the plural of genders I and II is gender IV's plural (small_plural), so the affinity holds between the plurals. The demonstrative's two numbers partition the genders crosswise (crossed_demonstrative), and together they separate all four (faithful_demonstrative). A few nouns vary their stem vowel with gender in the same way, and nanVh 'face' takes the gender of the one whose face it is, Olsson's inherited gender.

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The four genders ([Ols21] §5.1).

  • gI : Gender

    Male humans.

  • gII : Gender

    Female humans and all animals.

  • gIII : Gender

    Most inanimates, and the default: ideophones and adverbial demonstratives take its forms.

  • gIV : Gender

    The remaining inanimates, whose agreements are the animate plurals'.

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    def CoastalMarind.instReprGender.repr :
    Gender → ℕ → Std.Format
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      Coastal Marind distinguishes the singular and the plural.

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        def CoastalMarind.face (g : Gender) :
        ↥numberSystem.values → String

        The noun nanVh 'face', by the gender and number of the one whose face it is: the one noun with overt alternation among the three that take their referent's gender, Olsson's inherited gender ([Ols21] §5.2.3).

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          Agreement patterns #

          The distal demonstrative alone separates the four genders, I and III sharing e-pe only in the singular and I, II and IV sharing i-pe only in the plural ([Ols21] §5.1).

          theorem CoastalMarind.injective_demonstrative_iff (g : Gender) :
          Function.Injective (demonstrative g) ↔ g = Gender.gI ∨ g = Gender.gII

          The gender whose singular form a gender's plural takes: gender IV, except that gender III does not distinguish number. Every vowel-alternating form realizes the plural of genders I and II as the singular of gender IV, the plural–gender IV affinity that [Ols21] §5.3.2 extends to number-suppletive verb stems.

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            theorem CoastalMarind.injective_small (g : Gender) :
            Function.Injective (small g)
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            A noun with its gender.

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              Nouns with overt gender #

              anem 'man'.

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                anum 'woman'.

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                  namek 'clanmate', of a man.

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                    namuk 'clanmate', of a woman.

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                      wananggib 'son'.

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                        wananggub 'daughter'.

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                          eɣal 'a certain man'.

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                            eɣul 'a certain woman'.

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