DARAI
SUMMARY
Verbs in Darai agree in person, number, gender and honorific grade with viable agreement controllers. If the subject corresponds to a possessive phrase, either the possessed noun or possessor can control agreement on the copula under certain conditions. Tentative evidence suggest that this generalisation can be extended to possessors in the complements or objects of other verbs. Little is currently known about the prominence conditions under which possessors can control agreement in Darai.
LANGUAGE PROFILE
ISO 639-3:
dry
WALS ID:
dar
LOCATION:
Nepal
CO-ORDINATES:
25°65'N, 84°34'E
AFFILIATION:
Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Indic
EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF PIPS
- Syntactic evidence in support of the internal status of prominent possessors is limited by the extent of their description.
- Prominent possessors appear to occupy the same syntactic position as other possessors within the NP.
- Prominent possessors have adnominal genitive case-marking, indicating dependency within the noun phrase.
KEY SOURCES
Dhakal, Dubi Nanda. 2015. Darai verb agreement. Himalayan Linguistics 14 (2): 1–38.
