The Unmarkedness of Subject-Verb Agreement in Contemporary English.
Subject-verb agreement in contemporary English has always been regarded as an operation morphologically marked, especially through the bound morpheme -s on the verb/auxiliary.3SG1 in the present tense. However, that agreement is not marked neither on the verb/auxiliary.3SG in the past tense nor on m...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Philosophy, Social & Human Disciplines Vol. 2; pp. 49 - 66 |
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Suceava: "Stefan cel Mare" University
2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=148295200&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 148295200 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 20694008 FIAT jtl: Annals of Philosophy, Social & Human Disciplines issn: 20694008 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2020 vid: 2 pid: 58683 pub: Suceava: "Stefan cel Mare" University artinfo: ui: 148295200 ppf: 49 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.7MB tig: atl: The Unmarkedness of Subject-Verb Agreement in Contemporary English. aug: au: AMADOU, Ali Kouamé affil: Department of English F.H.B University of Cocody Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire su: Agreement (Grammar) Inflection (Grammar) Morphemics Nouns sug: subj: Agreement (Grammar) Inflection (Grammar) Morphemics Nouns keyword: feature [3SG] morpheme -s referential defectivity Strong Minimalist Thesis Subject-verb agreement topic feature ab: Subject-verb agreement in contemporary English has always been regarded as an operation morphologically marked, especially through the bound morpheme -s on the verb/auxiliary.3SG1 in the present tense. However, that agreement is not marked neither on the verb/auxiliary.3SG in the past tense nor on modal auxiliaries. It is worth noting that this is surprising for a language where subject-verb agreement is viewed as morphologically visible. Things are supposed to be so due to the poverty of the English inflectional morphology (Cf. Roberts, 1985; Pollock, 1989; Chomsky, 1991; 1993; Fernández-Pena, 2014; 2017; inter alia). Thus, since subject-verb agreement in contemporary English is said to be visible only through the occurrence of the bound morpheme -s on the verb/auxiliary.3SG in the present tense, this morpheme is consequently taken as the symbol of subject-verb agreement markedness (Cf. Kayne, 1989; 1994). And yet, when considering some non-assertive constructions and sentences having a collective noun as grammatical subject, there are reasons to postulate that subject-verb agreement in contemporary English is not morphologically marked. This paper is then intended to show that subject-verb agreement in contemporary English is not morphologically marked, that the bound morpheme realized on the verb/auxiliary.3SG in the present tense appears to be the realization of a pragmatic/discursive feature, and that this morphemic realization is triggered by legibility conditions as proposed by the Strong Minimalist Thesis (Chomsky, 1995). pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Annals of Philosophy, Social & Human Disciplines is the property of Suceava: "Stefan cel Mare" University and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Annals of Philosophy, Social & Human Disciplines holder: Suceava: "Stefan cel Mare" University dt: @attributes: year: 2020 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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