%D 2014 %T Agreement and the Development of Gender in Semitic (Part I) %! Agreement and the Development of Gender in Semitic (Part I) %X SummaryThe present article investigates nominal agreement features such as gender and number in Semitic based on a typological perspective and proposes a derivation of the attested agreement systems from an original situation in which gender and number were only indicated on pronouns and basic animate lexemes. It further proposes a new explanation for the phenomenon of chiastic concord in cardinal numbers based on a derivational understanding of the morpheme -(a)t. The article is divided into two parts: part I presents a general discussion of agreement and the basic data from Semitic. Part II provides an analysis of the data and a reconstruction of the development that underlies the rise of gender, number, and agreement in Semitic. %U https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.164.1.0033 %0 Journal Article %R 10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.164.1.0033 %J Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft %V 164 %N 1