On Case Concord: the Syntax of Switch-reference Clauses
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This paper discusses switch-reference (SR) systems in Pano and Muskogean languages, and propose that grammatical case plays an essential role in licensing same subject SR constructions in these languages. Specifically, case activates an agreement relationship between two clauses, allowing for transmission of information about participant coreference. Different subject SR, on the other hand, does not involve case concord, but signals the activation of a discourse participant that was either inactive in the background or not present.
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