nonesuch 146: different forms of the verb ‘to say’ depending on the sex of the person whose speaking is reported: bada ‘[a man] said’, mana ‘[a woman] said’
Where found
Ket (isolate, “Paleosiberian”)
Domain
morphology, lexicon
Subdomain
agreement
Keywords
gender, speech reporting
Type
nonesuch
Universals violated
Source
Dul’zon, A. P. (1964). Ocerki po grammatike ketskogo jazyka, I. Tomsk: Izdatel’stvo Tomskogo Universiteta. (p65) Reported in: Corbett, Greville G. (1991). Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (p131)
