For this feature, we are interested in noun classes (classes which nouns belong to based on properties such as gender, animacy, or shape and can be identified through agreement with a modifier). We are not looking at noun classifiers (classifiers classify the noun and occur independently from other elements). Articles can agree in gender/noun class with the head noun even if the head noun is not overtly marked for gender/noun class. This feature concerns both definite and indefinite articles. Features GB020 and GB021 both concern the absence or presence of definite and indefinite articles, please consider those features if you have coded 1 for this feature.
Movima (ISO 639-3: mzp, Glottolog: movi1243)
Coded 1. Movima articles may agree with feminine, masculine and neutral gender.
loy iɬ roya-poj-na us itila:kwa ITN 1 house-CAU-DR ART.m man ‘I’ll have the man build a house.’ (Haude 2006: 139)
Koromfé (ISO 639-3: kfz, Glottolog: koro1298)
Coded 1. The indefinite article does not inflect but the definite article agrees with the noun in humanness (Rennison 1997: 80–82).
Apurinã (ISO 639-3: apu, Glottolog: apur1254)
Coded 0. Apurinã lacks articles. However, demonstratives may agree in gender with head noun (da Silva Facundes 2000:3 55).
Udihe (ISO 639-3: ude, Glottolog: udih1248)
Coded 0. It was inferred from the grammar that there is no gender agreement (Girfanova 2002: 8).
Corbett, Greville G. 1991. Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Greville G. Corbett. 2013. Number of genders. In Matthew S. Dryer & Martin Haspelmath (eds), The world atlas of language structures online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
da Silva Facundes, Sidney. 2000. The Language of the Apurinã People of Brazil (Maipure/Arawak). Buffalo: State University of New York. (Doctoral dissertation.)
Girfanova, Albina H. 2002. Udeghe. (Languages of the World/Materials, 255.) Munich: Lincom Europa.
Haude, Katharina. 2006. A grammar of Movima. Nijmegen: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. (Doctoral dissertation.)
Rennison, John R. 1997. Koromfe. (Descriptive Grammars Series.) London: Routledge.
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| 0 | absent | 1935 | |
| 1 | present | 183 | |
| ? | Not known | 110 |
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