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Changing the topic a bit: I'm glad that the term "person(-number)
indexing" is being used in this discussion, because "agreement in
person" seems to be extremely rare in the world's languages (found
only in Germanic, Romance, and Anejom, according to Siewierska 1999:
239).<br>
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Many linguists use the term "agreement" in situations like Spanish
"yo quier-o“, even though in almost all languages with person
indexes the independent personal pronoun is only used to emphasize
the referent. This seems to be motivated primarily by the situation
in German and English, where the pronoun is indeed obligtory and the
verb can be said to copy its person-number features from the
pronoun.<br>
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Or am I missing something? Are there other reasons to use the term
"person agreement", e.g. in the Austronesian languages of eastern
Indonesia that David mentions?<br>
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Best,<br>
Martin<br>
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Reference<br>
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<div class="csl-entry">Siewierska, Anna. 1999. From anaphoric
pronoun to grammatical agreement marker: Why objects don’t make
it. <i>Folia Linguistica</i> 33(1–2). 225–252.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20.06.18 09:36, David Gil wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:e4bec593-89e8-4020-a310-31a32aecd3fd@shh.mpg.de"
type="cite">Ilja,
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This is not exactly what you're asking for, but perhaps close
enough to be of interest. Austronesian languages typically do not
have verbal person-number subject indexes; however, in many
Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia, verbal agreement has
arisen, and, for the most part, the markers in question are
clearly reconstructable to the earlier Austronesian independent
pronouns.
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Best,
<br>
<br>
David
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On 19/06/2018 21:52, Ilja Seržant wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Dear all,
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I am looking for families (or subfamilies with a larger time
depth) for which verbal person-number subject indexes /
"agreement" affixes (featuring the intransitive subject for
ergative lgs.) are reconstructed. (I already have data on
Dravidian, Semitic, Indo-European, Maya, Finno-Ugric and Turkic
but I need more for my study on the dynamics of these).
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I would be very grateful for any reference.
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Best,
<br>
<br>
Ilja
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Martin Haspelmath (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:haspelmath@shh.mpg.de">haspelmath@shh.mpg.de</a>)
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
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