Re: Help: Looking for Source

2007/5/13, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>:

> > I don't know the language, or even what about the language
> > sounds like, but what I remember is that this language had
> > absurdly redundant agreement, such that every argument in the
> > sentence had to agree with every other argument in the
> > sentence.  It worked something like this (a case name plus C =
> > a case marker, and a case name plus A = agreement with that
> > case):
> >
> > I-NOMC-ACCA-DATA give-1sg.Sbj.-3sg.D.Obj.-3sg.I.Obj.-PAST
> > girl-ACCC-NOMA-DATA flower-DATC-NOMA-ACCA.
>
> t.
>
My gosh. Did the book happen to explain why the language felt it
necessary for the various nouns serving different arguments in a
sentence to actually have additional agreement with one another?

Eugene