Reflections on verb agreement in Hindi and related languages  

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Comrie, Bernard

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of The Language Sciences vol. 22 no. 6 (1984), page 857-864.

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It is possible to state verb agreement in Hindi in terms of word order and surface case, with no reference to grammatical relations: the verb agrees with the leftmost phonologically null instance of case marking (Saksena 1981: 468). It is questioned whether this is, however, the correct statement of the rule. Other Indo-Aryan languages, closely related to Hindi, present interesting variations on the case marking of subjects and direct objects, and in all such variations it turns out that the grammatical relations, shared with Hindi, take precedence over case marking. While Hindi verb agreement can be stated as above, it is doubtful whether this is indeed a simpler rule, in the sense of a rule preferred by speakers of a natural language, than one stated primarily in terms of grammatical relations with subsidiary reference to case marking: in the imperfective, the verb agrees with its subject unless this is overtly case marked; in the perfective, agreement is with the absolute (intransitive subject, transitive direct object) unless this is overtly case marked.

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