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Information Structure with Aidan Aannestad

Conlangery Podcast

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The Different Types of Agreement Morphology Within Focus Markers

There's other reasons why things can move and trigger this agreement that is not necessarily just focus. Sometimes it's like we are reduced voice morphology or like subordination plus voice. Old Japanese has a weird system where you get different verb morphology depending on which focus marker you use next to the focused argument. With no regard to which argument it is, it doesn't matter which argue it is. It matters which focus markerYou picked. And because this is old Japanese, we don't really have a great idea of what the different meaning is but if there's a difference in meaning.

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