Syntax of person agreement and morphological case in Mehweb Dargwa
Ganenkov D. S. Sintaksis lichnogo
soglasovaniya i morfologicheskiy padezh v megebskom yazyke.
Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 572.
The paper discusses patterns of person
agreement in Mehweb Dargwa. The focus of the paper is constructions
with dative subjects where person agreement can be controlled by
neither the dative subject or absolutive direct object. This
constitutes a violation of Bobaljik’s conjecture about the role of
morphological case in agreement. The paper shows that person
agreement in dative subject constructions is possible only under
condition that both the dative and absolutive NPs are first person
arguments.
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