Rara #62
Legacy number: 62
| Number | 62 |
| Phenomenon | inflection of the great majority of words – nominal, pronominal, verbal –for sex of the speaker (and, in the case of male forms, also of the addressee, with males using female forms when addressing females), with female forms formed from male forms by final syllable reduction or male forms formed from female forms by adding a syllable (whose form depends on the class of word so inflected) |
| Found in | Yana (Hokan) |
| Domain | morphology: inflection — categories and their domains: gender, respect |
| Type | nonesuch |
| Keywords | deixis |
| Source | Sapir, Edward (1929). Male and female forms of speech in Yana. In St. W. J. Teeuwen (ed.), Donum Natalicum Schrijnen, 79-85. Nijmegen. Reprinted in David G. Mandelbaum (ed.), Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality, 206-212. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949. |
| Violates | none |
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