Two Ways of Suspending Object Agreement in Puma: Between Incorporation, Antipassivization, and Optional Agreement

Subject Agreement, Object Agreement and Specificity in Swahili

Remarks on Agreement and Incorporation Phenomena

In previous work (see Anderson 1992 and references cited there), I have developed a particular approach to the issue of “Lexicalism” in syntax. I have argued for a view of the relation between morphology and syntax on which a specific kind of feature complex (the Morphosyntactic Representation, or “MSR” of a form) constitutes the only interface between morphological and syntactic structure. The...

Kappa Test for Agreement Between Two Raters

Introduction This module computes power and sample size for the test of agreement between two raters using the kappa statistic. The power calculations are based on the results in Flack, Afifi, Lachenbruch, and Schouten (1988). Calculations are based on ratings for k categories from two raters or judges. You are able to vary category frequencies on a single run of the procedure to analyze a wide...

Object agreement and specificity in early Swahili.

Schaeffer (1997, 2000) argues that children lack knowledge of specificity because Dutch children omit determiners and fail to scramble pronouns. Avrutin and Brun (2001), however, find that Russian children place arguments correctly according to whether they are specific or non-specific. This paper investigates object agreement and specificity in early Swahili. Object agreement in Swahili is obl...

Object Agreement and Specificity in Swahili

The acquisition of abstract categories of language (such as tense, aspect and agreement among others) has commanded much of the attention of the field of language acquisition for many decades now. How early do children show knowledge of these abstract properties of language, and how do they acquire them? One such abstract property of language is nominal specificity. In some languages a noun is ...