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Subject-verb number (dis)agreement
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2010 This paper discusses cases of number mismatches between subjects and verbs. The main proposal is that subject-verb agreement is not in number but in a different feature, that we call Cardinality.
Daniela Isac
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ERROR TYPES IN SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT [PDF]
Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Proficiency, 2022 The aim of this study is to identify the types of errors in subject-verb agreement. The basic mistakes made by students in subject-verb agreements are a lack of knowledge about sentence patterns and their types. The study applied a qualitative descriptive method.
Dyah Utami Dewi, Hafizah Rifiyanti
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Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2022 In an ever-changing environment such as a situation with a variety of linguistic information, individuals have to adapt by selecting the most relevant and appropriate information. In event-related potential studies that manipulated the syntactic agreement between a subject and a verb, it was shown that morphosyntactic features (e.g., number or person ...
Aristia, Jane +3 more
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Subject-verb agreement in Arabic
Queen Arwa University JournalAgreement in grammar refers to formal relationship between elements, whereby a form of one word conforms to the form of another. The preservation of agreement between a controlling phrase and a controlled phrase under various conditions provides a clear indication that agreement relations are sensitive to linear or directional properties, otherwise ...
الشعيبي, مثنى محمد مقبل +1 more
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Subject clitic variation in a northern Italian dialect [PDF]
, 2010 PhDThis study investigates the phenomenon of subject clitic (henceforth, SCl) variation in Ligurian, a variety spoken in the north-west of Italy. Through the examination of empirical data, this work shows that variation can be incorporated in the theory ...
Ciarlo, Chiara, Chiara Ciarlo
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Acehnese and English Subject-Predicate Concord: A Contrastive Analysis
Journal of English Teaching and Linguistics, 2023 Contrastive analysis as a synchronic method in language analysis used in this study to show similarities and differences between languages or dialects in order to solve practical problems related to languages, such as language teaching and translation ...
Inas Ghina, Rahil Helmi
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EFL Students’ Difficulties on Using Subject-Verb Agreement
Journal of English Education and Teaching, 2023 The purpose of this study is to determine the common subject-verb agreement difficulties that students encounter in the English Education Study Program at the University of Bengkulu. This study adopted a qualitative methodology.
Amara Aulia Putri, Erni Sukesi, Zahrida
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(Reversed) Mismatch Asymmetry in English Subject-Verb Agreement
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 This paper investigates, in English, the widely reported mismatch asymmetry, or plural attraction in the production of subject-verb agreement and the relatively less observed reversed mismatch asymmetry, or singular attraction in comprehension. Through a
Nazik DİNÇTOPAL DENİZ +2 more
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Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 Standard Arabic (SA) exhibits two common word orders: subject-verb-object (SVO) and verb-subject-object (VSO). In SA, agreement is contingent on word order.
Ahmad Radi Alshammari
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Numeral Subjects in Polish: Surface Morphology vs. Abstract Syntax [PDF]
Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, 2021 Numeral subjects in Polish show a non-uniform agreement pattern with the verb depending on the cardinality of the numeral (paucal vs. high) and the gender of the NP. Full agreement shows with paucal numerals (
Jacek Witkoś
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