C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis.
Upwards-oriented complementizer agreement raises questions about the directionality and locality of agreement. Based on novel data from original fieldwork, we argue that what has been described as an agreeing 'say'-based complementizer in Kipsigis (Diercks and Rao 2019; Diercks et al. 2020) is the l...
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