Advanced Topic in LFG : Agreement
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1 Determiners and Coordinated Nouns in English Singular determiner with singular noun, plural determiner with plural noun: (1) a. a boy/that boy/*those boy b. those boys/*a boys/*that boys Singular determiner with coordinated singular nouns: (2) a. that boy and girl/a boy and girl b. *those boy and girl Plural verb agreement with coordinated singular nouns: (3) a. That boy and girl *is/are my friends. b. This boy and girl have become skilled at setting the places for their classmates at snacktime. (http://www.edvid.com/infant.asp) c. In this type of “marriage” . . . a man and woman who have lived together for a certain period of time and who hold themselves to be husband and wife are considered to be married even without a license and a formal ceremony. (http://www.itslegal.com/infonet/family/common.html) Plural determiner with coordinated plural nouns; not closest conjunct agreement (cf. 4b): (4) a. those boys and girls b. *those boys and girl c. those boys and that girl The research reported here is supported by AHRB grant MRG-AN10939/APN17606. 2 Analysis Two agreement features, index and concord (Kathol 1999; Sadler 1999, 2003; Corbett 2001; Wechsler and Zlatić 2000; King and Dalrymple 2004) In English: index controls verb agreement, concord controls determiner agreement (Wechsler and Zlatić 2000)
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