It is possible to state verb agreement in Hindi in terms of word order and surface case, with no reference to grammatical relations: the verb agrees with the leftmost phonologically null …
C Rathmann, G Mathur - Modality and structure in signed and …, 2002 - books.google.com
One major question in linguistics is whether the universals among spoken languages are the same as those among signed languages. Two types of universals have been …
AR Deal - Proceedings of the international conference on …, 2015 - lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca
The Nez Perce verb agrees with the subject and the object in person and number. This paper considers the full paradigm of verb agreement in transitive clauses, documenting a …
Based on data conceming agreement and floated quantifiers from standard English and two non-standard variants, various generalizations are drawn as to when and how the functional …
This article surveys some leading generative ideas about agreement and case, and connects them to several universal and near-universal observations noted by typologists. It …
In this paper I argue that Small pro is not needed as a representative for null subjects in languages like Italian, Spanish, Standard Arabian etc. Instead I propose the Person Phrase …
Accounting for verb agreement in Hindi has posed a problem for both traditional and modern grammarians and has led to considerable dispute, as in the recent exchange between …
Agreement can be characterized as the obligatory, multiple occurrence of a morphological feature. The two examples in (1) are from English and German:(1a) shows subject-verb …
C Chapman - Historical linguistics, 1995 - torrossa.com
In a considerable number of modern English dialects the occurrence of the present tense marker-s, which has been extended analogically from third person singular forms to all …