Rara #146

Legacy number: 146

 Number  146
 Phenomenon  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'
 Found in  Ket (isolate, "Paleosiberian")
 Domain  morphology, lexicon — agreement
 Type  nonesuch
 Keywords  gender, speech reporting
 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)

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