Agreement in Chirag Dargwa

Yevstigneyeva A. P. Soglasovaniye v chiragskom darginskom. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 605.

Chirag, like other Dargwa languages, along with the traditional Dagestanian gender agreement with the absolutive, has developed person agreement organized in a non-trivial way (and generally governed by the animacy hierarchy). The purpose of this study is to determine the mechanisms of these two types of agreement: gender agreement and person agreement. This paper describes prototypical targets and controllers of agreement, formulates a basic agreement model and cases of deviation from it. In Chirag there is LDA (long distance agreement), although not widespread. In addition, in transitive clauses in analytical constructions, copula necessarily agrees with the ergative/dative participant, and not with the absolutive one. As far as person agreement is concerned, speech act participants and the subject have the priority (1, 2 > 3 => A > P). If both arguments are speech act participants, the subject becomes the controller.