nonesuch 86: determiners and modifiers agreeing in all relevant agreement categories (gender, number, case) with only one of two or more conjoined nouns sharing these…
nonesuch 86
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Month: May 2020
nonesuch 85
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nonesuch 85: attributive adjectives agreeing (in gender, number, case) when they precede their noun but not when they follow it (using the invariable stem here)…
rarissimum 84
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rarissimum 84: relative pronoun as the only target for agreement in animacy Where found Modern Standard English (Germanic, IE) Domain syntax Subdomain agreement: controllers, targets,…
rarum 83
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rarum 83: some noun-phrase internal agreement but no agreement at clause level Where found (some) Pama-Nyungan (Australian); modern Continental Scandinavian Germanic (IE) Domain syntax Subdomain…
rarum 82
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rarum 82: parasitic gaps (rather than an overt resumptive pronouns), licensed in main clauses if and only if a coreferential NP in a topicalized, fronted…
rarissimum 81
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rarissimum 81: (finite) verb-second word order in main declarative clauses only if the first constituent is an adverbial with strong negative force (such as never…
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rarissimum 80: (finite) verb-second word order in main declarative clauses generally optional, but obligatory if the first constituent is the unmarked narrative consecutive adverb ‘then’…
rarum 79
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rarum 79: (finite) verb-second word order in main declarative clauses (i.e., specifically VERB-second rather than more generally clitic-second or X-second) Where found many Germanic languages…
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rarissimum 78: expression of numerical approximation (‘about 5’, ‘about the fifth’) by inversion of word order from Numeral + Noun to N + Num Where…
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rarum 77: object before subject in basic word order Where found OVS: Coos (Coosan);ApalaÃ, Arekuna-Taupilang, BacairÃ, Hianacoto-Umaua, Hixkaryana, Makushi, Panare (all Carib ), Asurinà (Tupi)…