Gender and classificatory suffixes of discretization in Ocaina (Witoto)
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Gender. Classificatory suffixes. Ocaina. Witotoan. Amazon.Abstract
Ocaina has both gender markers and classificatory discretization suffixes (cf. classifiers), areal and typological feature under-documented. Gender classifies the nominal lexicon into animate vs inanimate and reflects beyond the noun itself through agreement: pronominal forms. The second category appears directly on the morphology of the subclasses generic and mass nouns (cf. uncountable nouns). It is not a classificatory noun device but the way in which nouns specified with these suffixes became discret: for this reason they are told “clasificatory discretization” suffixes. This paradigm is one of the means marking the singular number category. We distinguish the “gender” or “grammatical gender” category, a classificatory device, from “semantic gender”: masculin vs femenin, marks that belong to the paradigm of discretizer suffixes (number category).
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