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 GruyterIt 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 GruyterIntensifiers such
Keywords: agreement, animacy, emphatic reflexive, focus, grammaticalization, inflection, intensifier, reflexive, word class
10/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterThis 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 VerlagA variety of linguistic, processing, and social factors have been shown to be associated with concord in existential
Keywords: existential there, syntactic variation, agreement, concord, logistic regression, mixed effects models
12/2007 | Corpus Linguistics and Lingustic Theory, Walter de Gruyter