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Gender exponence and apparent polarity in a class of Omani Mehri plurals

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A class of Omani Mehri broken plurals contains an extra glide (w or y) that is absent from the singular. Its place and its identity both co-vary with the noun's gender: in one site w marks masculine and y feminine, in the other site the mirror image holds. The paper asks whether this is genuine polarity (syncretism along the diagonals of a paradigm) or whether one site is the real exponent of gender and the other an artefact. Assuming that templates reflect the morphosyntactic architecture, and that roots do not spread freely to repair ill-formed structures, the author identifies the canonical gender site. The apparent polarity then reduces to an OCP effect. The evidence is lexical counts from Johnstone's Mehri Lexicon (four subclasses of 25, 50, 10 and 7 items) and a comparison with three other exponence patterns (English -s, Chaha imperatives, Classical Arabic causatives).

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@article{fathi2017gender,
  title = {{Gender exponence and apparent polarity in a class of Omani Mehri plurals}},
  author = {Fathi, Radwa},
  journal = {Glossa: a journal of general linguistics},
  year = {2017},
  doi = {10.5334/gjgl.249},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.249}
}

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  55. How to cite this article: Fathi, Radwa. 2017. Gender exponence and apparent polarity in a class of Omani Mehri plurals. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2(1): 103. 1–22, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.249 ↗ our card
  56. Submitted: 01 September 2016 find
  57. Accepted: 04 September 2017 find
  58. Published: 04 December 2017 find
  59. Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by Ubiquity Press. OPEN ACCESS ↗

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