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Interaction between Discourse Functions and Agreement in Setawana

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In this paper we examine the interaction between discourse function and agreement in Setawana, a northern dialect of Setswana.1 In particular, we explore the grammatical and anaphoric agreement properties of Setawana subject and object markers from the Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) perspective of

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