Re: Help: Looking for Source

On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:09:28 -0700, David J. Peterson
<dedalvs@...> wrote:

>I'm looking for a language example that I was fairly certain was
>in Comrie, but which isn't in the Comrie book I have.  It might
>be in a handout I received years ago, but I have no idea where
>they all got to.  I was wondering if anyone on the list might
>recognize the example, and would know the reference.
>
>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.
>
>This is (or was, at least) a natural language that did this, and I
>need desperately to find the actual example.  Does it look familiar
>to anyone?
I don't recognize it, but could it be an Australian language???

>
>-David
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