This study aims to (1) demonstrate the position of the Oromo gender system in Corbett's (1991) typology of gender; (2) illustrate major syntactic gender variation across the Oromo dialects; (3) identify factors that contributed to the gender variation, and (4) illustrate the morphosyntax of the Oromo gender system. The data obtained from the Oromo Speech Corpus shows a high degree of lexical and syntactic variation between the Western-Northern dialects on the one hand, and the Eastern-Southern dialects on the other hand. The Western and Northern dialects have shifted from the historically Cushitic phonology-based gender assignment pattern to the semantic-based assignment pattern. This shift has resulted in a widespread neutralization of feminine gender markers. The contact between Oromo and the neighboring non-Cushitic languages contributed to these changes. The study also argues that Kramer's (2015) morphosyntactic approach can be extended to the analysis of Oromo gender system.

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奥罗莫方言的性别差异：基于语料库的研究*

本研究的目的是（1）证明奥罗莫性别系统在 Corbett（1991）性别类型学中的地位；(2) 说明奥罗莫方言的主要句法性别差异；(3) 确定导致性别差异的因素，以及 (4) 说明奥罗莫性别系统的形态句法。从奥罗莫语音语料库获得的数据显示，一方面，西部-北部方言与东部-南部方言之间存在高度的词汇和句法差异。西部和北部方言已经从历史上基于库希特音系的性别分配模式转变为基于语义的分配模式。这种转变导致女性性别标记的广泛中和。奥罗莫语与邻近的非库希特语之间的接触促成了这些变化。该研究还认为，Kramer（2015）的形态句法方法可以扩展到奥罗莫性别系统的分析。