Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.
Upward Oriented Complementizer Agreement in Kipsigis (Diercks & Rao)
This week's paper talks about complementizer agreement (CA) in the Nilotic language Kipsigis. With CA, the complementizing verb's subject agrees with the complementizer (e.g. English 'that' in 'He said that they are cute') in some way, whether it be for number or some other grammatical category. Now I know that CA is a very specific topic, so I decided that in this week's TyPoW you can also just talk about complementizing constructions in general. Here are the prompts:
- Does your language even have complementizers?
- Does CA occur? How do your conlang's complementizers work syntactically and morphologically?
- How are the phrases that are introduced by such complementizers handled?
- Are there any syntactic processes or transformations going on with respect to complementizers and their phrases?
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So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!