17.2655, Qs: Case/Agreement Systems

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Subject: 17.2655, Qs: Case/Agreement Systems

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Date: 16-Sep-2006
From: Pritty Patel < pritty_kerai at hotmail.com >
Subject: Case/Agreement Systems 

	
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:16:21
From: Pritty Patel < pritty_kerai at hotmail.com >
Subject: Case/Agreement Systems 
 


Hi, 

I am a student at UCL and am working on case/agreement mismatches. I am
currently looking for languages which may have one of the case/agreement
systems given below:

Language Type	             Case	                  Agreement
	                  Imperfective Perfective	   Imperfective	Perfective
Type 1	               erg/abs	     erg/abs	         erg/abs	nom/acc
Type 2	               erg/abs	     nom/acc	       erg/abs	      nom/acc
Type 3	               erg/abs	     nom/acc	       erg/abs	        erg/abs

In language type 1, the case pattern is ergative/absolutive regardless of
the aspect.  In the imperfective, the agreement pattern is
ergative/absolutive but in the perfective, the agreement pattern is
nominative/accusative.  

In language type 2, there is a split in both the case and agreement system.
 In the imperfective, both the case and agreement pattern are
ergative/absolutive.  In the perfective however, the case/agreement pattern
is nominative/accusative.

In language type 3, the split is absent from the case system but present in
the agreement system.  in both the imperfective and perfective aspect, the
agreement pattern is ergative/absolutive.  In the the perfective, the case
pattern is nominative/accusative, and in the imperfective, ergative/absolutive.

If you know of a language which may have one of the above case/agreement
systems, I'd be grateful if you could let me know. 

With best wishes --Pritty Patel 

Linguistic Field(s): Typology




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