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Verb Agreement and the Structure of the Clause in Karaja.

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Maia, Marcus – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1997

A study of verb agreement and clause structure in Karaja, a Brazilian indigenous language of Macro-Je stock, discusses the subject and object agreement systems with relation to the Feature Specification Constraint. Implementation of the SOV order in Karaja is then analyzed and evidence is presented for the existence of a single functional phrase…

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