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rarissimum 137

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rarissimum 137: object and subject NPs agreeing
(a) in gender/class and number
(b) in person

Where found
(a) Archi (Northeast Caucasian); Ripatransone dialect of Italian (Romance, IE)
(b) Coahuilteco (Hokan)
Domain
syntax
Subdomain
agreement: controllers, targets, categories, domains, conditions
Keywords
object, subject, gender, class, number, person
Type
rarissimum
Universals violated
?
Source
Kibrik, Aleksandr E. (1977). Opyt strukturnogo opisanija Arcinskogo jazyka, vols. 2 and 3. Moskva: Izdatel’stvo moskovskogo universiteta.
Lüdtke, Helmut (1977). Die Mundart von Ripatransone: Ein sprachtypologisches Kuriosum. In Milan Romportl et al. (eds.), Studies in Linguistic Typology, 173-177. Prague: Charles University.
Troike, Rudolph C. (1981). Subject-object concord in Coahuilteco. Language 57: 658-673.

One Comment

  1. FP
    FP

    See also Hagège (1993: 77-88) or Corbett (1994) for more general surveys of agreement, mentioning also a few further instances where targets can hardly be seen as being in direct syntactic construction with controllers, which is usually considered necessary to license agreement. In Ripatransone Italian, nouns (of suitable form, i.e. of the a-declension) do not only agree with subject when direct objects, but also in adverbial relations – and adverbials are somewhat less uncommon agreement targets crosslinguistically. In Archi, the targets are experiencers in the dative case and the controllers are stimuli in the absolutive case; which of these two arguments of verbs of experience and emotion is subject and which is object for other grammatical purposes is another question.

    Hagège, Claude (1993). The Language Builder: An Essay on the Human Signature in Linguistic Morphogenesis. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
    Corbett, Greville G. (1994). Agreement: An overview. In R. E. Asher et al. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, vol. 1, 54 – 60. Oxford: Pergamon Press.

    1. May 2020

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