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| − | + | | ''ki-kapu'' || ''ki-kubwa'' || ''ki-moja'' || ''ki-li-anguka'' | |
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| + | | 7/8.SG-basket || 7-large || 7-one || 7-past-fall | ||
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| + | | colspan=4 | One large basket fell. (Welmers 1973:171) | ||
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===Comments=== | ===Comments=== | ||
Latest revision as of 22:08, 20 October 2007
An agreement construction is called alliterative agreement if the agreement marker on the target is identical to a formative on the controller, and if different targets all show the same formative (Corbett 2006:15-17).
Example
Swahili
| ki-kapu | ki-kubwa | ki-moja | ki-li-anguka |
| 7/8.SG-basket | 7-large | 7-one | 7-past-fall |
| One large basket fell. (Welmers 1973:171) | |||
Comments
The term alliterative agreement is really appropriate only for prefixal agreement markers (see alliteration), but Corbett (2006:15-17, 87-90) also extends it to other markers, following Dobrin (1995).
Synonym
- allterative concord (Dobrin 1995)
References
- Corbett, Greville G. 2006. Agreement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Dobrin, Lise M. 1995. "Theoretical consequences of literal alliterative concord." Chicago Linguistic Society 31, vol. I, 127-142.
- Welmers 1973
Other languages
- Russian аллитерационное согласование
