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Re: Help: Looking for Source

From:Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...>
Date:Saturday, May 12, 2007, 5:24
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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