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Re: Help: Looking for Source

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>
Date:Saturday, May 12, 2007, 17:33
* 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, 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.
I saw something like this in chapter 1 or 2 of: Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time Johanna Nichols t.

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