- linguistics,
polypersonal agreement or
polypersonalism is the
agreement of a verb with more than one of its
arguments (usually up to four).
Polypersonalism is a...
-
distinctive and
extremely complex features, such as
split ergativity and a
polypersonal verb
agreement system.
Georgian has its own alphabet. In this article...
- verb
structure that can
include up to
eight morphemes,
exhibiting polypersonalism. The
language has
seven noun
cases and
employs a left-branching structure...
- pluractionality, and reciprocity.
Verbs may also be
affected by agreement,
polypersonal agreement, incorporation, noun class, noun classifiers, and verb classifiers...
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Alyutor or
Alutor is a
language of
Russia that
belongs to the
Chukotkan branch of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages. The
Alutor are the
indigenous inhabitants...
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object and the
indirect object present.
Among European languages, this
polypersonal agreement is
found only in Basque, some
languages of the
Caucasus (especially...
- On the
other hand, Basque, Georgian, and some
other languages, have
polypersonal agreement: the verb
agrees with the subject, the
direct object, and even...
- and
intransitive verbs behave in
distinctive ways. In
languages with
polypersonal agreement, an
intransitive verb will
agree with its
subject only, while...
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Patient Topic and
Comment Focus Volition Veridicality Phenomena Agreement Polypersonal agreement Declension Empty category Incorporation Inflection Markedness...
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definition of polysynthesis.
Generally polysynthetic languages have
polypersonal agreement,
although some
agglutinative languages that are not polysynthetic...
