Animacy hierarchy and case/agreement in Okinawan

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5255

Keywords:

case, agreement, animacy, differential case-marking, Agreement Pa- rameter, Okinawan, Japanese, Old Japanese

Abstract

In languages like Japanese and Okinawan, morphological evidence for agreement is scarce, which has led to the long-standing controversy as to its existence. In this article, I argue that while φ-agreement is not morphologically realized on the predicates in Okinawan, it is nevertheless indirectly detectable in the form of animacy agreement in differential case-marking.

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Published

2022-05-05

How to Cite

Hiraiwa, Ken. 2022. “Animacy Hierarchy and Case Agreement in Okinawan”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 7 (1): 5255. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5255.