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Dear all,<br>
<br>
Roon (an Austronesian language of the South Halmahera West New
Guinea group spoken in the Cenderawasih Bay region) has similar
constructions, with NP-internal quantifiers and demonstratives
agreeing in number, gender and person with their nominal heads.<br>
<br>
I recently gave a conference paper titled "Person Marked Noun
Phrases", providing a world-wide typological study of person marking
within noun phrases, of which the construction mentioned by Steve
Wechsler is a particular case. In a nutshell, the construction
seems pretty rare worldwide, with a cluster in west New Guinea, plus
isolated instances in Nama and Classical Nahuatl. However, not all
of the languages with person marked noun phrases have the kind of
agreement pattern illustrated in Zulu below. For example, Papuan
Malay has person marked noun phrases but no NP-internal agreement
involving quantifiers or other such attributive modifiers.<br>
<br>
BTW, it is indeed very important to ascertain that in a string such
as the Zulu example below, the pronoun and the quantifier form a
constituent. In Hebrew, for example,, analogous strings are also
grammatical, but the quantifier is adverbial and not part of the
subject NP.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
David<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 29/09/2012 09:40, Pattie Epps wrote:
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<div><font color="#000000">Hello all,<br>
<br>
This query is on behalf of Steve Wechsler:<br>
<br>
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>
</font><font color="#0E37A5"><u><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wechsler@mail.utexas.edu">wechsler@mail.utexas.edu</a></u></font></div>
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David Gil
Department of Linguistics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Telephone: 49-341-3550321 Fax: 49-341-3550119
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gil@eva.mpg.de">gil@eva.mpg.de</a>
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