Agreement
Verbs
Agreement verbs are verbs that inflect for
person, number, and aspect but
do not take locative affixes. For example, “give”, “lend”, “tell”, etc.
(Padden 1990: 119)
Agreement
verbs in ThSL are all transitive. Some
may be bi-transitive.
The verb
is in agreement with its direct object and/or subject in number and person and
may incorperate
the
classifier of the direct object when the verb is bi-transitive. There is no
locative affix
but there
may be syntactic space being the direction of the action of the verb from
subject to
object or vice versa. For example,
“©Ñ¹ªèǤس” (gloss: “I help you”) “I
help you.”
“©Ñ¹¶ÒÁ¤Ø³” (gloss: “I ask you”) “I ask you.”
“©Ñ¹¶ÒÁ¤Ø³·Ñé§Êͧ¤¹” (gloss:
“I ask you (and) you”) “I ask both of
you.”
“©Ñ¹¶ÒÁ¤Ø³·Ñé§ÊÒÁ¤¹” (gloss:
“I ask you-three”) “I ask the three
of you.”
“©Ñ¹¶ÒÁ¤Ø³·ÕÅФ¹” (gloss: “I ask you, you, (and) you”) “I ask each of
you.”
“©Ñ¹¶ÒÁ·Ø¡¤¹” (gloss:
“I ask you-all”) “I ask you all.”
“¾Ç¡à¢ÒµèÒ§¡ç¶ÒÁà¢Ò” (gloss: “they ask him/her”) “They ask
him/her.”
“¾Ç¡àÃÒ¶ÒÁà¢Ò¡Ñ¹äËÁ” (gloss: “we ask
him/her question”) “Shall we
ask him/her?”
“à¢ÒºÍ¡©Ñ¹ (gloss: “he tells me”) “He
tells me.”
“¤Ø³Â×Áà§Ô¹(¨Ò¡)©Ñ¹” (gloss: “you lend/borrow money (from) me”) “I lend you
money.”
“©Ñ¹àªÔà¢Ò” (gloss: “I invite you”) “I invite you.”
In case the verb is transitive, the syntactic
structure is
or
In case the verb is bi-transitive, the syntactic
structure is
or
or
For
example,
“¾èÍãËéà§Ô¹á´§” (gloss: father gives
‘money’ Dang) “Father
gives Dang money.”