TABASSARAN
SUMMARY
In Tabassaran, possessors of both arguments and obliques can control predicate agreement. This agreement replaces subject agreement on the predicate. Whether the possessor of an argument or an oblique or the subject controls agreement arguably depends on their relative discourse prominence.
LANGUAGE PROFILE
ISO 639-3:
tab
WALS ID:
tbs
LOCATION:
Russia
CO-ORDINATES:
42°01'N, 47°50'E
AFFILIATION:
Nakh-Daghestanian, Lezgic
EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF PIPS
- Evidence for the internal status of possessors comes from adnominal genitive case-marking on the possessor which occurs independently of the possessed noun's grammatical function.
KEY SOURCES
Babaliyeva, Ayten. 2013. Études sur la morphosyntaxe du tabasaran littéraire. PhD dissertation, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris.
Kibrik, Aleksandr E. and Seleznev, Mixail G. 1980. Sintaksis i morfologija glagoľnogo soglasovanija v tabasaranskom jazyke [The Syntax and Morphology of Verbal Agreement in Tabassaran], in V. A. Zvegincev (ed.), Tabasaranskie ètjudy, 17-33. Moscow: MGU.
