In:Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols
Edited by Balthasar Bickel, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake
[Typological Studies in Language 104] 2013
► pp. 283–298
A history of Iroquoian gender marking
Published online: 13 December 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.104.12cys
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.104.12cys
The North Iroquoian languages have a three-way gender division in the third-person prefixes. On the basis of small differences between the meanings of these genders, a history of the gender marking is proposed, building upon earlier work by Chafe (1977). This new proposal uses fewer reconstructed stages and only assumes widely attested kinds of semantic change. However, because some aspects of this proposal do not follow genetic or areal connections between the languages, independent parallel developments are proposed to account for the convergence.
Cited by (3)
Cited by three other publications
Kilarski, Marcin
2016. Gender Asymmetries in Iroquoian Languages and their Cultural Correlates. Historiographia Linguistica 43:3 ► pp. 363 ff.
Kilarski, Marcin
[no author supplied]
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 7 december 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.