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Selected Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Shifting the Center of Africanism in Language Politics and Economic Globalization edited by Olaoba F. Arasanyin and Michael A. Pemberton ISBN 1-57473-414-8 library binding vii + 220 pages publication date: 2006 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract Brent Henderson Multiple Agreement, Concord and Case Checking in Bantu 60-65 (complete pdf) In compound tense constructions in some Bantu languages, each verb displays full agreement with the subject. Carstens (2001) argues that these clauses are raising constructions. However, this paper presents evidence from inversion in relative constructions that this is not the case. Instead, it is argued that participial verbs value their agreement features not with an Agree relation with the subject, but with a Concord relationship with the auxiliary verb and that only the auxiliary has an Agree relation with the subject. |