On the Number-Gender (In)dependence in Agreement with Coordinated Subjects.
This paper examines the availability of single-conjunct agreement in number and gender in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. Reported are the results of an experiment in which coordinated singulars are included, as well as disjunction and negative-concord conjunction, next to the typically examined conjoined...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Slavic Linguistics Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 41 - 70 |
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Indiana University, Slavic Department
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