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<div><font color="#000000">Hello all,<br>
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This query is on behalf of Steve Wechsler:<br>
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It has been noted that (at least some) Bantu languages have person<br>
agreement inside certain Quantified Noun Phrases:<br>
<br>
Thina s-onke si-fik-ile
(Zu<span
></span>lu; Doke 1963:94, cited in<br>
Baker 2008:115)<br>
we 1pl-all
1pl-arrive-perf<br>
'We have all arrived.'<br>
<br>
The quantifier onke 'all' agrees with thina 'we' in person (and<br>
number). This is said to be typologically rare since adnominals
such<br>
as quantifiers do not normally agree in person. I would be
interested<br>
in any examples of such apparently nominal-internal person
agreement<br>
in Bantu or other languages. In particular, I wonder if phrases
like<br>
[we 1pl-all] can occur in all nominal positions in the sentence
(such<br>
as object position), or rather tend to be sentence-initial.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Steve Wechsler<br>
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color="#0E37A5"><u>wechsler@mail.utexas.edu</u></font></div>
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