Universal #428

Legacy number: 428

 Number  427
 Original  If there is any set of agreeing constituent types whose members show agreement in terms of semantically interpretable or “natural” gender properties, this set will include constituent types that are external to the noun phrase – that is to say, verbs and anaphoric pronouns.
OR, putting it in another way:
the occurrence of semantic or natural gender agreement within the noun phrase implies such agreement outside it in the same language.
 Standardized  Whenever there is gender agreement, IF morphological gender can be overruled by semantics within the noun phrase, THEN it can also be overruled in noun phrase external gender agreement.
 Formula  agreement in gender (within the NP) ⇒ agreement in gender (outside the NP)
 Keywords  agreement, gender, NP
 Domain  inflection, syntax, semantics
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages mentioned in Moravcsik 1978b
 Source  inferred from Moravcsik 1978b: 340

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Discussion
Notes
See Corbett's Agreement Hierarchy.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
See Corbett's Agreement Hierarchy.