@article{THESIS,
      recid = {2573},
      author = {Meyer, Cherry Lynn},
      title = {Noun Categorization in Ojibwe: Gender and Classifiers},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2020-08},
      number = {THESIS},
      pages = {195},
      abstract = {Ojibwe is an Algonquian language spoken around the Great  Lakes region of the United States and Canada. It has  grammatical gender and a classifier system, which are rare  in a single language (Corbett, 1991:137; Fedden and  Corbett, 2017). I provide a detailed and  typologically-informed analysis of numeral and verbal  classifiers in Ojibwe. Numeral classifiers can be of two  types: mensural, referring to measurements, and sortal,  referring to properties such as dimensionality, size, and  material. It is shown that these types can be distinguished  by occurring with differing forms for the numeral ‘one’,  and sortal classifiers are vital to understanding gender  assignment. Assignment is mostly straightforward, with all  nouns denoting humans and animals in the ANIMATE category,  and the vast majority of nouns denoting inanimates in the  INANIMATE category. However, some nouns with inanimate  referents are ANIMATE. Previously characterized as  ‘exceptions’ to semantic assignment, they are motivated by  compatibility with the semantics of one of these sortal  classifiers, as illustrated by pairings of classifiers and  nouns (1). I also discuss the role of analogical extension,  dialectal variation, diachronic change and claims for an  interaction of gender with the count/mass distinction. 

1.    a. /-aatig/   ‘1D, rigid’, i.e. stick-like		-	mitig  ‘tree’

      b. /-aabiig/ ‘1D, flexible’, i.e.  string-like		-	zesab ‘nettle’

      c. /-eg/       ‘2D,  flexible’, i.e. sheet-like		-	asekaan ‘tanned hide’

       d. /-minag/ ‘3D, small, round’, i.e. berry-like	-	miskomin  ‘raspberry’

      e. /-aabik/  ‘mineral’, i.e. metal,  stone, glass	-	asin ‘a stone’},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2573},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2573},
}