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PDF pending restorationAissen, Judith L. – 1984
This study investigates whether other relationships in sentence structure besides the "brother-in-law" relation sanction surrogate agreement in Zinacanteco Tzotzil (Mayan). Surrogate agreement refers to cases in which an element that lies outside the class of regular agreement controllers in a language (the surrogate) controls…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Language Research, Sentence Structure
