{"pk":35039,"title":"Introduction to ‘Verb agreement in languages of the Eastern Himalayan region'","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The papers in this issue document argument indexation or verb agreement systems in a set of relatively unknown Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in the hills along the eastern border of India. This introduction lays out the goals and scope of the contributions. In addition, an overview of a few topics of particular interest is given: the types of person marker sets found in these languages; number marking; clusivity; transitive and ditransitive indexation patterns; innovative speech-act participant object marking and portmanteau forms for particular person scenarios; inverse marking; and variation in indexation forms.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"verb agreement"},{"word":"person indexation"},{"word":"Clusivity"},{"word":"Inverse"},{"word":"Hierarchical Indexation"},{"word":"Speech-Act Participants"},{"word":"Diachronic Morphosyntax"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qz517rr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Linda","middle_name":"","last_name":"Konnerth","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Scott","middle_name":"","last_name":"DeLancey","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2019-07-13T17:40:18Z","date_accepted":"2019-07-13T17:40:18Z","date_published":"2019-07-01T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/himalayanlinguistics/article/35039/galley/26120/download/"}]}