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Grammatical Agreement: History
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Grammatical agreement is a linguistic phenomenon in which the form of one element in a sentence is determined or constrained by the grammatical features of another element [1][2]. These features commonly include person, number, gender, and grammatical class, and agreement may be expressed through inflectional morphology or other formal markers on verbs, adjectives, pronouns, determiners, and nouns [1][2]. The distribution and realization of agreement vary across languages, with different grammatical systems specifying which elements participate in agreement and which features are shared.

  • Grammatical agreement
  • Concord
  • Inflectional morphology
  • Syntactic features

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation • Language and Linguistics • Arts and Humanities • Social Sciences

References

  1. Corbett, G. G. (2006). Agreement. Cambridge University Press. https://www.academia.edu/1395482/Agreement
  2. Baker, M. C. The Syntax of Agreement and Concord. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2008. https://scispace.com/pdf/the-syntax-of-agreement-and-concord-8rwbd8vleg.pdf
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