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BETWEEN AGREEMENT AND CASE MARKING IN LAMNSO*Linguistic Agreement • May 5th, 2020
Abstract: Lamnso, a language in the Grassfields branch of Southern Bantoid, has a system of noun classes marked by (C)V affixes that attach to the stem. Noun modifiers agree with the noun by attaching a comparable affix that matches the class. This type of NP-level concord is typical of Bantu languages. At the clausal level, (C)V markers that are identical in form to those appearing at the NP-level appear as enclitics on virtually all nouns in a sentence. Though these markers are identical, it is argued that they serve separate functions, marking agreement on subject nouns before the verb and case on oblique object nouns after the verb. Direct objects and nouns in locative expressions are not marked. Typological evidence in the form of a grammatical relations hierarchy is discussed in support of these claims.
BETWEEN AGREEMENT AND CASE MARKING IN LAMNSO*Linguistic Agreement • September 21st, 2004
Grammatical relations in human languages, such as those between a noun phrase and the verb, are primarily expressed by means of three different morphosyntactic strategies: word order, case mark- ing, and agreement (Croft 1990: 101). All languages, rather than relying on just one of these mecha- nisms, use some combination of the three. In this paper, we intend to show that the Southern Bantoid language Lamnso employs elements of all three of these strategies to indicate the relationship that a noun bears to the verb in a clause.
