2.2.1. Agreement
TİD has spatial verbal agreement [Morphology - Chapter 3]. Agreement verbs change their direction of movement and sometimes hand orientation. In this way certain spatial loci are associated with arguments (agent, patient, etc. [Semantics - Chapter 6]). Generally, the referents are assigned distinct loci in the beginning of discourse. In the following utterance, the referents boy and girl are signed in different locations first. Then, they are inferred from the initial and final locations of the verb.
boya ıxa girlb ıxb book agiveb‘The boy gave the book to the girl’
While agreement verbs generally denote agent and patient, spatial verbs agree with topographic information, source and goal [Morphology - Chapter 3 and Lexicon - Section 3.2.3.].
schoola ıxa homeb awalkb
‘I walked from school to home’
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