The Syntax of Agreement and ConcordCambridge University Press, 7 Φεβ 2008 'Agreement' is the grammatical phenomenon in which the form of one item, such as the noun 'horses', forces a second item in the sentence, such as the verb 'gallop', to appear in a particular form, i.e. 'gallop' must agree with 'horses' in number. Even though agreement phenomena are some of the most familiar and well-studied aspects of grammar, there are certain basic questions that have rarely been asked, let alone answered. This book develops a theory of the agreement processes found in language, and considers why verbs agree with subjects in person, adjectives agree in number and gender but not person, and nouns do not agree at all. Explaining these differences leads to a theory that can be applied to all parts of speech and to all languages. |
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Σελίδα 11 - As far as I am aware, no known principle of linguistic theory prevents us from imagining a possible natural language with some form of person agreement where this agreement can be used only with predicate adjectives or only with predicate nouns, but not with predicate verbs.
Σελίδα 11 - I have not found a single instance of a language in which such a situation can be observed. In this book, no attempt at an explanation for the Agreement Universal will be made.