Comrie (1984) argues for the traditional lists relying on the syntactic categories of subject and object (1) because agreement in related languages Gujarati and Marathi uses these categories, and (2) because syntactic rules that rely on morphophonological shape are 'unnatural. This paper shows ...
The empirical evidence on the basis of which the proposal is developed drawsfrom a wide range of typologically non-related languages, including Basque, Hindi, Icelandic, Itelmen, Marathi, Nez Perce, Niuean, Punjabi, Sahaptin, Selayarese, Yukaghir, and Yurok . The proposal has far-reaching ...