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Subject-verb Agreement in Constructions with Quantifiers in Russian

open access: yesPoljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 2021
The agreement of subject and predicate in Russian is actually much less trivial than it might seem at first glance. This paper deals with the case when the subject is realized by a combination of a noun with a quantifier. I analyze a set of examples with
Anna Aksenova
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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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Adult Chinese Spanish L2ers’ acquisition of phi-agreement and temporal concord: The role of morphosyntactic features and adverb/subject-verb distance

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
IntroductionWhile phi-agreement and concord are suggested to differ in nature during the first language (L1) acquisition, the acquisition of adverb-verb TC and SV person/number agreement by Chinese Spanish second language (L2) learners has only received ...
Tiaoyuan Mao   +3 more
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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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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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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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Improving subject-verb agreement in SMT [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Ensuring agreement between the subject and the main verb is crucial for the correctness of the information that a sentence conveys. While generating correct subject-verb agreement is relatively straightforward in rule-based approaches to Machine ...
Vanmassenhove, Eva   +2 more
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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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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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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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