Anti-Agreement and [Person] in Bantu
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In many languages the agreement relation between an argument and a verb is suppressed or altered when the argument is extracted. These so-called anti-agreement effects (AAEs) have been discussed for Berber, Breton, Irish, Turkish, Italian dialects, and other languages as well (see Ouhalla 1993, among others). Recently, Scheider-Zioga (2000, 2002, 2007) and Cheng (2006) have discussed AAE in Bantu languages. In some Bantu languages, AAE occurs in the context of subject extraction: the subject agreement marker that normally occurs in an SVO sentence is replaced by a different marker that appears only when the subject has been extracted. An example from Kinande, taken from Schneider-Zioga (2007), appears in (1). In (1a) the canonical agreement marker /a-/ is prefixed to the verb. In (1b), however, the subject has been extracted and the /a-/ marker is replaced by a different marker, /u-/. (1c) shows that the canonical marker is impossible in this context:
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