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On the Relationship Between Null Subjects and Agreement: A Large-Scale Cross-Linguistic Account

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2021
It is generally assumed that languages with rich agreement allow null subjects, while languages with poor agreement do not. However, the concept of agreement richness has been remarkably difficult to define. This study, based on a sample of 403 languages,
Ernei Ribeiro Pereira
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Demonstrative-verb and subject-verb agreement

open access: yes, 2021
There exists extensive prior theoretical literature on demonstrative-verb and subject-verb agreement, yet basic research questions have not been adequately tested.
Nicholas Entwisle
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SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT AND ASPECT IN MUNA LANGUAGE

open access: yesHumaniora, 2013
The article examines subject-verb agreement and aspect in Muna language. The data of this study were collected through observation and note-taking and analyzed syntactically.
La Ode Nggawu
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Error Analysis of Writing Verbs in Discussion Text

open access: yesEnglish Review: Journal of English Education, 2015
The objective of this study is to find out the error types of writing verbs in students‟ discussion texts and to identify the factors causing verb errors at the fourth semester students of English major in University of Kuningan.
Dadang Solihat, Diah Novianti
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SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT ERRORS MADE BY SIXTH SEMESTER ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDENTS

open access: yesJournal of English Education and Teaching, 2017
This resarch used descriptive quantitative method. This research aimed to find out subject- verb agreement errors made by sixth semester Engllish Education students of Universitas Bengkulu and to find out the possible causes of the errors. The samples of
Eki Putra Hidayatullah   +2 more
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Agreement in Italian SLI children: a comparison between Determiner-Noun, Subject-Verb and Object-Verb agreement

open access: yesQuaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2016
In this paper, we present the results of a new forced-choice task designed to test SLI children’s competence with three different agreement configurations: Determiner-Noun, Subject-Verb and Object-Verb agreement.
Vincenzo Moscati, Ilenia Vottari
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Morphophonological influences on the construction of subject-verb agreement [PDF]

open access: yesMemory & Cognition, 2003
In three experiments, we investigated whether the production of subject-verb number agreement is affected by the phonological realization of grammatical information. Speakers repeated and completed German or Dutch noun phrases along the lines of The position against the demonstrations.
Hartsuiker, R.J.   +3 more
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A Self‐Organizing Approach to Subject–Verb Number Agreement [PDF]

open access: yesCognitive Science, 2018
AbstractWe present a self‐organizing approach to sentence processing that sheds new light on notional plurality effects in agreement attraction, using pseudopartitive subject noun phrases (e.g., a bottle of pills). We first show that notional plurality ratings (numerosity judgments for subject noun phrases) predict verb agreement choices in ...
Smith, Garrett   +2 more
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Demonstrative-noun and subject-verb agreement

open access: yes, 2021
There exists extensive prior theoretical literature on demonstrative-verb and subject-verb agreement, yet basic research questions have not been adequately tested.
Nicholas Entwisle
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A phase-based account of agreement asymmetry in Arabic

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2021
This paper considers the well-known puzzling phenomenon of subject–verb agreement asymmetry in Arabic: full agreement surfaces in SV word order, whereas VS order manifests partial agreement.
Ameen Alahdal
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