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| Adjectives | 1 |
| Deep Structure | 1 |
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| Greek | 1 |
| Nouns | 1 |
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| Semantics | 1 |
| Slavic Languages | 1 |
| Surface Structure | 1 |
| Verbs | 1 |
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| Comrie, Bernard | 1 |
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Peer reviewedComrie, Bernard – Language, 1975
Data from a number of language (Slavic, Romance, Modern Greek) concerning predicate agreement with the polite plural (semantically singular, but plural in surface structure) suggest that more verb-like predicates tend to agree with the surface subject, while more noun-like predicates tend to agree with the underlying subject. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Greek
