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4.1 The status of Agree studies 4.1 The status of Agree studies
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4.2 A brief introduction to the problem 4.2 A brief introduction to the problem
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4.3 Argument indexation in Mara 4.3 Argument indexation in Mara
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4.3.1 Person marking in Mara 4.3.1 Person marking in Mara
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4.3.2 Number marking in Mara 4.3.2 Number marking in Mara
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4.3.3 Summary of the data 4.3.3 Summary of the data
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4.4 Types of formal approaches: The interface issue 4.4 Types of formal approaches: The interface issue
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4.4.1 Syntactic approaches 4.4.1 Syntactic approaches
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4.4.2 Morphological approaches 4.4.2 Morphological approaches
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4.4.3 Portmanteau morphs and prominence hierarchy 4.4.3 Portmanteau morphs and prominence hierarchy
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4.5 Analysis 4.5 Analysis
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4.5.1 The division of labour between syntax and morphology 4.5.1 The division of labour between syntax and morphology
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4.5.1.1 The syntactic component 4.5.1.1 The syntactic component
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4.5.1.2 The morphology component 4.5.1.2 The morphology component
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4.5.1.3 Modular interaction 4.5.1.3 Modular interaction
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4.5.1.4 Schematic computations of key agreement patterns in Mara 4.5.1.4 Schematic computations of key agreement patterns in Mara
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4.6 Conclusions 4.6 Conclusions
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Acknowledgements Acknowledgements
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4 A morphosyntactic account of agreement in Mara
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Published:November 2022
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Abstract
This chapter looks at Mara, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the state of Mizoram in Northeast India, across the following paradigms: (i) direct and inverse alignment of agreement affixes; (ii) person-number feature discontinuous split; and (iii) negation affecting inversion. The analysis is based on a morphosyntactic approach towards multiple agreement and is shown to be superior to a purely syntactic one, since such an approach can account for the (default) prefixal as well as suffixal orders of agreement affixes in the language. The system set-up involves syntactic operations of bottom-up Agree cycles from v-to-T, which are conditioned by person-number hierarchy and by the presence of negation. In the morphological component two operations, namely, a relativized sub-φ-structure vocabularization and Flipping, are proposed, which work in tandem with syntax by operating on the Spell-Out structures generated by the Agree cycles syntax and derive the desired orders of affixes.
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