Genus alternans in Khotanese? A synchronic analysis of the agreement classes

• Alessandro del Tomba ^[1]
  1. [1] Sapienza, Università di Roma
• Localización: Archivio glottologico italiano, ISSN 0004-0207, Vol. 106, Nº. 2, 2021, págs. 164-194
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The aim of this article is to demonstrate that Khotanese has a two-gender system within which the neuter does not qualify as a fully-fledged gender value. Although three distinct sets of controllers, each of which selects a separate agreement pattern, can be identified, the third shows no traces of a dedicated target gender as it combines agreement traits of masculine and feminine. This third, alternating agreement class is not a gender value in its own right, nor even a controller gender, since it is non-canonical with respect to its morphosyntactic manifestations and productivity: it is an inquorate value.