NEUTER GENDER IN THE LANGUAGES OF ARU

Neuter gender in the languages of Aru

This paper examines gender agreement in three little-known languages of the Aru Islands and places them within the larger pattern of "neuter gender" in eastern Indonesia.For each language, I look first at the variety of agreement targets Styling hair oil that are controlled by gendered nouns.Secondly, I look at the semantics of nouns that control a

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Transcriptome analysis of the endangered Notopterygium incisum: Cold-tolerance gene discovery and identification of EST-SSR and SNP markers

Notopterygium incisum C.C.Ting ex H.T.Chang (Apiaceae) is an endangered perennial herb in China.The lack of transcriptomic and genomic resources for N.incisum greatly hinders studies of its population genetics and conservation.In this study, we employed RNA-seq technology to characterize transcriptomes for the flowers, leaves, and stems of this end

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