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.
Agreement in Qassimi Spoken Arabi Salih AlzahraniLinguistic Agreement • June 25th, 2022
This paper discusses the agreement system in one of the most distinguished Saudi dialects. Qassimi Spoken Arabic is a dialect, which is spoken by around 931,085 people living mainly in Al-Qassim Province, which is located in the center of Saudi Arabia. Prochazka (1988) claims that QSA has many noticeable and distinguishable features make the dialect different from other Najdi dialects. QSA is different from MSA in its phonological, morphological, syntactic levels. QSA does not accept all word orders, which are present in either MSA or other Saudi dialects. They prefer VS order. However, they use the SV order when they have SVO structure due to the absence of case marking which might lead to ambiguity determining the subject and/or the object. QSA shows that the subject controls the agreement system in both the verbal clauses and in the equational clauses. QSA also shows to produce a different form of the passive verb like ʔkissarat: „is broken‟, which is a form that is not seen to be u
Agreement in Sambalpuri: A Lesser-Known LanguageLinguistic Agreement • August 21st, 2021
The present investigation includes agreement in Sambalpuri. Sambalpuri is a lesser- known language which is spoken in western part of Indian state of Odisha. It is identified as an Indo-Aryan language being used by more than 10 million people in 10 districts of Odisha. The undertaken topic is a widespread morphosyntactic phenomenon that occurs more or less in each and every language of the world. Agreement is a linguistic feature in natural language in which the form of one word or morpheme (typically, verb) depends on another word or phrase (typically, Subject NPs) as dependency relations. For instance, the form of X (target) is determined/ depends by/on the selection of Y (the controller).
