... a masculine default, and Zayse and Zargulla (Omotic), which have a feminine default. The analysis predicts there will be no language that has two genders and an “unsexed entity” default, and the chapter closes by showing that a putative counterexample (Lealao Chinantec; Otomanguean) is in fact a gender system...

...Paradigm transparency is the extent to which an entire inflectional paradigm is deducible analogically from a subset of its component parts. This chapter proposes precise measures of paradigm transparency. Evidence from Chinantec and Fur demonstrates that paradigm transparency is a significant...