| Title: | Investigation of Slovenian copular agreement |
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| Authors: | Marušič, Franc (Author)
Žaucer, Rok (Author) |
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Not categorized (r6) |
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| Tipology: | 1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution |
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| Organization: | UNG - University of Nova Gorica |
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| Abstract: | This paper reports on a detailed investigation of agreement inside simple predicative sentences. In this type of sentence, both noun phrases are in the nominative, so in principle
either one can trigger agreement on the copular verb. We examine various types of copular
contructions and show that regardless of the type of predicative sentence, when a plural
is combined with a singular, it is always the plural that agrees. Similarly, when a dual is
combined with a singular, the dual wins out. But when we combine a dual and a plural, the
copula can agree with either of the two noun phrases, with a preference for the noun phrase
following the copula. We discuss the relevance of these findings for recent literature on
predication. |
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| Keywords: | agreement, copula, number, singular, dual, plural, Slovenian |
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| Year of publishing: | 2021 |
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| Number of pages: | 372 pp. |
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| COBISS_ID: | 95704579 |
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| URN: | URN:SI:UNG:REP:1RQEOF9B |
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