Sex and Agreement

On Key Agreement and Conference Key Agreement

An attack is demonstrated on a previously proposed class of key agreement protocols. Analysis of the attack reveals that a small change in the construction of the protocols is suucient to prevent the attack. The insight gained allows a generalisation of the class to a new design for conference key agreement protocols.

Hows and Whys of Reuter’s Agreement: From Contraction to Cancellation

This article is an attempt to survey the contraction and cancellation of the Reuter’s agreement as a one-sided approach and from special perspective, by using minimalistic ideology and with emphasis on multi-sided and various reasons and factors effective in the process of this contract.  On the basis of this research, in this contraction, different factors came together and augmented one anoth...

Subject Agreement, Object Agreement and Specificity in Swahili

Morpho-Syntactic Agreement and Index Agreement in Dutch NPs

For the treatment of agreement in Dutch NPs I adopt a distinction, familiar from HPSG, between morphosyntactic agreement and index agreement. In order to determine their respective roles, I make another distinction, proposed in Van Eynde (2003), between marked and unmarked nominals. Employing these distinctions, I will demonstrate that the combination of prenominal adjectives and determiners wi...

Experience and grammatical agreement: statistical learning shapes number agreement production.

A robust result in research on the production of grammatical agreement is that speakers are more likely to produce an erroneous verb with phrases such as the key to the cabinets, with a singular noun followed by a plural one, than with phrases such as the keys to the cabinet, where a plural noun is followed by a singular. These asymmetries are thought to reflect core language production process...