addendum coston object affixes summary object affixes linguist list vol6 235 fri 17 feb 1995 simon corston observes languages object affixes lack affixes indicating grammatical relations occur would appear uncommon however really depends mean object affixes subject affixes matter called subject object affixes fall three types nonreferential nonanaphoric agreement markers ii functionally ambiguous agreement markers e functioning nonreferential nonanaphoric agreement markers anaphoric referential markers depending context bresnan mchombo 1987 iii anaphoric referential markers nuclear micronesian group provides interesting case foregoing distinction instance woleaian subject markers independent words whereas object markers suffixes functionally ambiguous agreement markers kusaiean subject object markers also independent words suffixes respectively referential pronouns detailed discussion nuclear micronesian languages see paper verb object bonding principle special reference nuclear micronesian languages see refs complexity subject object affixes viz three types mentioned disregarded probably corston observation may hold anaphoric referential subject object markers taken account may different story fact paper used small convenience sample 40 languages ascertain whether verb object bonding principle proposed tomlin 1986 transitive verb object form cohesive unified syntactic semantic whole transitive verb subject evident pronominal system well e g object pronouns tightly bonded verb subject pronouns upshot investigation object pronouns e g affixes tightly bonded verb subject pronouns e g independent words suggests insofar referential anaphoric markers concerned languages object affixes lack affixes indicating grammatical relations may crosslinguistically common rather uncommon refereneces bresnan j mchombo 1987 topic pronoun agreement chichewa language 63 741782 givon 1976 topic pronoun grammatical agreement subject topic ed c n li pp 149188 new york academic press tomlin r 1986 basic word order functional principles london croom helm song j j 1994 verb object bonding principle special reference nuclear micronesian languages oceanic linguistics 33 2 press jae jung song university otago new zealand