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Godisawoman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Nouns == === Number === === Gender === Ipeyól features a grammatical gender system that distinguishes nouns along a dual animacy hierarchy, divided into animate and inanimate classes. This system, while deriving from the ancestral Spanish biological gender classification, reflects unique cultural and cognitive categories within Ipeyól speakers. Animate nouns in Ipeyól typically include human beings, large animals, birds, celestial and atmospheric phenomena (e.g.,...") |
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A notable feature of Ipeyól is its capacity for gender shifting: the ability of certain inanimate nouns to adopt animate grammatical status in specific contexts. This shift often occurs when the noun is personified, becomes the subject of speech or thought, or plays a central role in narrative sequences. For example, the normally inanimate noun laflór may take animate agreement when appearing as a personified spirit or character in discourse, or if the speaker wishes to give a typically inanimate noun an endearing characterization (e.g., lorí, ‘ant’ is typically inanimate, but in cultural fables with ant characters the noun follows animate morphosyntax). Likewise, body parts, tools, or natural features can be treated as animate if they exhibit agency or symbolic power in a story. Since there is no explicit animate or inanimate suffix in Ipeyól, this fluidity is very common. Some nouns switch meaning depending on animacy, for example the word lalenwu,‘tongue’ when it is inanimate refers to the body part in an animal’s mouth, whereas an animate pattern connotes ‘language.’ | A notable feature of Ipeyól is its capacity for gender shifting: the ability of certain inanimate nouns to adopt animate grammatical status in specific contexts. This shift often occurs when the noun is personified, becomes the subject of speech or thought, or plays a central role in narrative sequences. For example, the normally inanimate noun laflór may take animate agreement when appearing as a personified spirit or character in discourse, or if the speaker wishes to give a typically inanimate noun an endearing characterization (e.g., lorí, ‘ant’ is typically inanimate, but in cultural fables with ant characters the noun follows animate morphosyntax). Likewise, body parts, tools, or natural features can be treated as animate if they exhibit agency or symbolic power in a story. Since there is no explicit animate or inanimate suffix in Ipeyól, this fluidity is very common. Some nouns switch meaning depending on animacy, for example the word lalenwu,‘tongue’ when it is inanimate refers to the body part in an animal’s mouth, whereas an animate pattern connotes ‘language.’ | ||
=== Case | === Case marking === | ||
==== Nominative ==== | ==== Nominative ==== | ||
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==== Oblique ==== | ==== Oblique ==== | ||
==== Locative ==== | ==== Locative ==== | ||
==== | ==== Instrumental ==== | ||
==== Ergative ==== | ==== Ergative ==== | ||
==== Absolutive ==== | ==== Absolutive ==== | ||