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The Inverse Agreement Constraint in Uralic languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The paper aims to answer the question why object–verb agreement is blocked in Hungarian, Tundra Nenets, Selkup, and Nganasan if the object is a first or second person pronoun.
É. Kiss, Katalin
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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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Agreement Asymmetries with Adjectives in Heritage Greek

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
Research on different populations of heritage speakers (HSs) has demonstrated that these speakers (i) frequently produce fewer adjectives, and (ii) produce more errors in nominal concord than in subject–verb agreement.
Artemis Alexiadou   +2 more
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The Effect of English Language Proficiency Level on Undergraduate Libyan Students’ Use of Subject Verb Agreement

open access: yesمجلة كلية الآداب, 2021
This study aims to examine the proficiency level of Libyan EFL (English as a Foreign Language) undergraduate students in terms of the types of subject-verb agreement errors they commit.
Eman Elmejie   +2 more
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SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND ARABIC VERB

open access: yesJurnal Smart, 2016
This paper is to know the similarities and differences between English and Arabic verb. The similarities between English and Arabic verb can be used as media to learn both languages.
Siswoyo Siswoyo
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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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Parsing of Subject-Verb Agreement by German Infants

open access: yesCatalan Journal of Linguistics
This study investigates the early parsing of subject–verb agreement in German-acquiring infants, focusing on whether morphosyntactic dependencies are parsed in real time when φ-feature morphology is the only available disambiguating cue. German offers a
Alejandra Keidel Fernández   +1 more
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The subject and non-subject agreements in the Yemsa relative clauses [PDF]

open access: yesTraining, Language and Culture
This study aims to elucidate the subject and non-subject agreement mechanisms within Yemsa relative clauses, an area not comprehensively covered by existing research. By analysing these agreement forms, the study seeks to bridge the identified gap in the
Mitike Asrat
doaj   +1 more source

Object attraction and the role of structural hierarchy: Evidence from Persian

open access: yesGlossa, 2020
Research on subject-verb agreement production in SVO languages has shown that objects moved pre-verbally sometimes trigger attraction, i.e., erroneous agreement of the verb with the object rather than the subject.
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour   +2 more
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When Agreement isn't Agreement: Deflected Agreement in Najdi Arabic as Aspect

open access: yesGlossa, 2023
In modern Arabic varieties, subject-verb agreement is complicated by plural nouns which can occur with both plural and singular verbs. These have been called strict and deflected agreement respectively.
Connor Caston Rouillier
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