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Number Agreement of Coordinated Subjects: Competing Syntactic and Semantic Rules

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: We investigate number agreement in coordinated subjects, including disjunctions and conjunctions of singular universal quantifier. Experimental data from German reveals that they often allow for singular agreement. We argue that there is a competition between semantic and syntactic agreement, and that the latter is a generalization of the former.

Source: Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory

DOI: 10.3765/8r3erj03

Authors: Manfred Krifka, Modarresi Fereshteh

Institutions: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4408984029

FWCI: 7.603

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