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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