Despite its alleged relative stability, grammatical gender has nevertheless been completely
lost in a number of languages. Through the analysis of three case studies (Afrikaans …

Whose name is hidden behind the anonymity of the key publication on Mediterranean
Lingua Franca? What linguistic reality does the label'Lingua Franca'conceal? These and …

Linguistic theory in general, and models of syntax in particular, have to take account of
crosslinguistic variation. These days it is hard to find a syntactician who would be opposed …

This article examines agreement in the Romance languages in light of current studies and
with the toolkit of linguistic typology. I will first introduce the definition of agreement assumed …

This paper questions the adequacy of the notion 'verbal agreement'with respect to the
inflectional marking of person in verbal paradigms, using Israeli Hebrew (IH) as a case …

Im Jahr 2008 wurde die Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) von Kees Hengeveld und
Lachlan Mackenzie publiziert, um die Beschreibung grammatikalischer Strukturen …

5.2 Systematic variation: the case of subject clitics French, northern Italian Dialects, Ladin,
and Romansh are characterized by the presence, with variable degrees of obligatoriness, of …

This paper presents a sketch of a theory of agreement within the framework of Role and
Reference Grammar and proposes an implicational universal that can be formulated rather …

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Genus-und Numeruskongruenz in der kroatischen
Herkunftssprache (im Weiteren HC) in vier unterschiedlichen Sprachkontaktsituationen. Das …

Possessive agreement is a pattern of NP-internal agreement in which certain features of the
possessor (usually person, number and/or gender) are marked twice within the NP: firstly, on …