Bases culturais para atribuição de gênero em Manxineru
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Gender. Agreement. Cultural basis. Metaphoric processes. Aruák familly.Abstract
This paper is about the semantic motivations for the masculine/feminine gender distinction in Manxineru (Yine), Aruák family. We argue that gender is a distinctive feature of the referents of nouns, semantically transparent, marked by means of suffixes in nouns referring either to stages of human beings or kin relations, although it appears crystallized in the phonological forms of other nouns. We show that the gender of a referent triggers obligatory agreement by means of personal affixes in nouns in possessive relations, and in nucleus of verbal and adjectival intransitive predicates, according to the gender of the subject, and in the case of transitive verbs, according to the gender of the object. We conclude that gender attribution in that language is modeled by the culture, and that in various cases it is of purely metaphoric nature.
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