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Peer reviewedBabby, Leonard H. – Language, 1973
Descriptors: Adjectives, Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Diagrams
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
Peer reviewedLjung, Magnus – Language, 1974
Descriptors: Adjectives, Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedNapoli, Donna Jo – Language, 1975
Problems of number inconsistency are discussed which arise in Italian when singular distributive quantifiers float rightward off of subjects, leaving these subjects plural. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Deep Structure, Italian, Linguistic Theory
