Subject–verb agreement in English

R Hudson - English Language & Linguistics, 1999 - cambridge.org
The paper rejects the standard view according to which every tensed verb in English agrees
with its subject in person and number. It argues that person is irrelevant to all verbs except …

Reflections on verb agreement in Hindi and related languages

B Comrie - 1984 - degruyter.com
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 …

14 Is verb agreement the same crossmodally?

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 …

[PDF][PDF] A note on Nez Perce verb agreement, with sample paradigms

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 …

Agreement and verb morphology in three varieties of English

RS Kayne - Studies in comparative Germanic syntax, 1995 - Springer
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 …

On agreement and its relationship to case: Some generative ideas and results

MC Baker - Lingua, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …

Agreement and the Person Phrase hypothesis.

C Platzack - 2004 - portal.research.lu.se
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 …

Hindi agreement as anaphor

JW Gair, K Wali - 1989 - degruyter.com
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 …

[PDF][PDF] A comprehensive semantics for agreement

U Sauerland - Phi-Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2004 - Citeseer
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 …

A subject-verb agreement hierarchy

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 …