Re: THEORY: Can Ditransitive Verbs Agree With More Than Two Core A...
| From: | tomhchappell <tomhchappell@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 20, 2005, 17:45 |
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A paper on the topic in question is at
http://www.ling.lu.se/persons/Arthur/caucprojreport.pdf
It is on the possible relationship between Basque and Caucasian
languages.
It includes a discussion of poly-personal agreement.
It also talks about other ergative languages with poly-personal
agreement, among the the Paeleo-Siberian language Chukchi.
It says Chukchi verbs have 4 "agreement slots", but never agree with
both objects.
---Tom
> 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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