infrequentale (family possession) 136: verbs agreeing with subjects in person and number in non-past tenses, but in gender and number in the past tense
- Where found
- Slavonic (IE) [a family possession]
- Domain
- syntax
- Subdomain
- agreement: controllers, targets, categories. domains, conditions
- Keywords
- verb agreement, tense, person, number, gender
- Type
- infrequentale (family possession)
- Universals violated
- Source
- grammars
Mentioned by Pierre Abbat, p.c.
Deriving from participles, it is not so surprising that past-tense verbs should continue to show adjectival agreement. With finite verbs not uncommonly deriving from non-finite ones, especially in past tenses and perfective aspects, such agreement splits should be crosslinguistically more common – but are they?