Darai verb agreement

The emergence of creole subject-verb agreement

Conflicting cues and competition in subject–verb agreement

Traditional theories of agreement production assume that verb agreement is an essentially syntactic process. However, recent work shows that agreement is subject to a variety of influences both syntactic and non-syntactic, which raises the question of how these different sources of information are integrated during agreement production. We propose an account of agreement production in which sev...

Morphophonological influences on the construction of subject-verb agreement.

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. We varied the number of the subject noun (position) and the local noun (demonstrations), as well as the number...

Honorifics: A sociocultural verb agreement cue in Japanese sentence processing

Case marking is the major cue to sentence interpretation in Japanese, whereas animacy and word order are much weaker. However, when subjects and their cases markers are omitted, Japanese honorific and humble verbs can provide information that compensates for the missing case role markers. This study examined the usage of honorific and humble verbs as cues to case role assignment by Japanese nat...

Dependency Grammar Based English Subject-Verb Agreement Evaluation

As a key factor in English grammar checking, subject-verb agreement evaluation plays an important part in assessing translated English texts. In this paper, we propose a hybrid method for subject-verb agreement evaluation on dependency grammars with the processing of phrase syntactic parsing and sentence simplification for subject-verb discovery. Experimental results on patent text show that we...