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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Steve, dear Pattie, dear list members,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mojeño Trinitario (Arawak, Bolivia) shows agreement on modifiers like “all, also”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>These can appear next within an NP in object position (actually sentence initial also in the following example):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES-BO style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>a-mutu eti n-echji-ko-'e<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>2pl-all Pro.2pl 1sg-speak/to-ACT-2pl<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>To all of you I am speaking.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“all” and “also” are often used as modifiers, however they can also stand alone with their person index. They should probably be analyzed as nouns or verbs in the language, but the data do not make that very clear. For this reason, I am not sure I would treat that as “agreement”. They are inflected quantifiers for sure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Very best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Discussion List for ALT [mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] <b>De la part de</b> Pattie Epps<br><b>Envoyé :</b> samedi 29 septembre 2012 06:10<br><b>À :</b> LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<br><b>Objet :</b> nominal-internal person agreement<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>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 (Zulu; 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></span><u><span style='color:#0E37A5'><a href="mailto:wechsler@mail.utexas.edu">wechsler@mail.utexas.edu</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>