Re: Help: Looking for Source

* taliesin the storyteller said on 2007-05-12 19:32:47 +0200
> * David J. Peterson said on 2007-05-11 21:09:28 +0200
> > I'm looking for a language example /../
> >
> > 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, /../ 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.
>
> I saw something like this in chapter 1 or 2 of:
>
> Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time
> Johanna Nichols
I found the exact spot today:
chapter 2, at the end of section 2.0.1.4, page 62 on the upper
half of the page:

The language is Kayardild and the example is as follows:

woman-OBL catch-PAST-OBL fish-MABL-OBL man-GEN-INSTR-MABL-OBL
net-INSTR-MABL-OBL

"the woman caught fish with the man's net"

This example is then from:

Dench, Alan, and Nicholas Evans. 1988. Multiple case marking in
Australian languages. Australian Journal of Linguistics 8: 1-47

The actual example is from pages 34 to 35 in the above article.

HTH,


t.

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