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Forker, Diana. 2018. Gender agreement is different. Linguistics 56 (4) : 865–894.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This study debates gender and person agreement in the Nakh-Daghestanian language Lak. It displays that the two agreement systems are formally and functionally totally disjuncted from each other. Lak Corpus data does not prove that gender agreement in this language is employed to establish reference. Thus it should rather be handled as concord, that is, similar to modifier agreement within the noun phrase.