--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@A...> wrote:
<...snip...>
> I'm almost certain that I read somewhere that in some languages, a
verb can
> agree with up to four arguments. The example sentence given was a
causative of
> a ditransitive, and the translation was something like "The old man
couldn't
> make the boys give the girl her dog back."
>
> The language might have been Georgian, or something else in the
Caucasian
> area.
> I cannot find the reference just now Perhaps this will jog someone
else's
> memory.
>
> Doug
That would be so cool!
It sounds a little like something I was browsing on-line about
evidence for a genetic relationship between the languages of the
Pyrenees, the Caucasus, and the Himalayas. I can't remember the
authors, but one of them had a name famous among the papers on
alignment and head- vs. dependent- -marking; (maybe it was Nichols
or Dixon.)
If I get a chance to look it up again, and it was the right paper,
I'll post a link to it. If not I'll just keep on looking like a guy
who should have RTFM.
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Tom H.C. in MI