NEUTER GENDER IN THE LANGUAGES OF ARU

Neuter gender in the languages of Aru

This paper examines gender agreement in three little-known languages of the Aru Islands and places them within the larger pattern of "neuter gender" in eastern Indonesia.For each language, I moonbon look first at the variety of agreement targets that are controlled by gendered nouns.Secondly, I look at the semantics of nouns that control agreement.

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