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Gender Mismatches

The relationships between grammatical gender and "natural" gender are not straightforward. In this project, we take the linguistic perspective on these two terms: how they relate to each other, how they interact and what potential correspondences and discrepancies exist between the two, and how the relationships between grammatical and "natural" gender play out in language variation and linguistic typology.

Romania Amerindia

The project was funded by the German Research Foundation from 2015 to 2021 (DFG project number 274614727). In the first phase of the project (2015-2017), the prosody of the Quechua of Conchucos in the province of Ancash in Peru was empirically recorded and theoretically illuminated. In the second project phase (2018-2021), the project was extended to Spanish & Guaraní in Asunción (Paraguay) and Nheengatú & Portuguese in São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Brazil). We are currently preparing a new application in order to be able to research the complex multilingualism in this region more intensively.

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