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C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis∗January 3rd, 2021
Upwards-oriented complementizer agreement raises questions about the direction- ality 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 & Rao 2019, Diercks et al. 2020) is the lexical verb ‘say’, and what looks like C-Agree is in fact logophoric agreement between this verb and its locally introduced (often covert) subject. Our analysis highlights that ‘say’-based complementizers might be of category V, and not C, in more languages than pre- viously thought (Koopman 1984, Koopman & Sportiche 1989, Major & Torrence 2020), which means that some instances of what has been described as C-Agree may instantiate standard verbal agreement.
