Cyclicity of Long-Distance Agreement in Muira Dargwa

Ivan Kalyakin
Institute of Linguistics RAS / Pushkin State Russian Language Institute

Abstract: This paper discusses the properties of long-distance agreement in Muira Dargwa (<Nakh-Daghestanian). I demonstrate that long-distance agreement is possible across all types of complement clauses and that it correlates with information-structural properties of the goal, varying with default agreement. I also discuss the existing approaches to the phenomenon of long-distance agreement and claim that only a Cyclic Agreement approach is able to adequately explain the properties of the construction.

Keywords: agreement, locality, long-distance agreement, cyclicity, Dargwa, Nakh-Daghestanian

For citation: Kalyakin I. Cyclicity of Long-Distance Agreement in Muira Dargwa. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2025. Vol. 8, iss. 1. Pp. 56–74. (In Rus.) doi:10.37632/PI.2025.39.63.003