Classifiers and gender systems are similar; Mian appears to show both, but to what extent?

What is it about?

Nouns in some languages have genders (like masculine/feminine/neuter). In some languages they have classifiers (like round/flat/long). It's rare to have both systems concurrently. We present a way to categorize the amount of concurrency of these two systems and a formal measure of concurrency, and we apply it to Mian, a language from Papua, which has four genders and six classifiers.

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Why is it important?

This analysis matters because it shows that in linguistic argumentation it is important to be explicit about definitions and base them on carefully analyzed cases. It also matters for psycholinguistics and the question of how speakers acquire and use features concurrently.

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