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Pluralization in sign and in speech: A cross-modal typological study

Spoken languages employ various strategies to mark the plural of nouns, the most important ones being affixation, reduplication, and zero marking; within one language, different strategies and/or different morphological markers may be used, depending on lexical, phonological, or morphological properties of the base noun...

Keywords: agreement, allomorphy, German Sign Language, inflection, number, numeral classifier, plural, reduplication, sign language

10/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter
Multifunctional agreement patterns in Bantu and the possibility of genderless nouns

It is generally assumed that all nouns belong to a gender in gender languages and that this constitutes a fundamental difference between gender systems and systems of noun classifiers...

Keywords: agreement, animacy, article, Bantu, borrowing, Eton, gender, kin term, noun class, number, proper name, referentiality

10/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter
Focused assertion of identity: A typology of intensifiers

Intensifiers such as himself/herself in English, ipse/ipsa in Latin, stesso/stessa in Italian, sam/samá in Russian, or selbst in German are most easily identifiable in terms of their prosodic and semantic properties...

Keywords: agreement, animacy, emphatic reflexive, focus, grammaticalization, inflection, intensifier, reflexive, word class

10/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter
Word-internal agreement

This paper is meant to demonstrate that agreement phenomena are by no means re-stricted to morpho-syntactic relations which connect separate words of an utterance to one another...

Keywords: morphology, agreement, word, univerbation, naturalness

03/2007 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag
There's two ways to say it: Modeling nonprestige there's

A variety of linguistic, processing, and social factors have been shown to be associated with concord in existential there constructions (e...

Keywords: existential there, syntactic variation, agreement, concord, logistic regression, mixed effects models

12/2007 | Corpus Linguistics and Lingustic Theory, Walter de Gruyter