Person agreement with coordinated subjects in Russian
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2023/14/0008/000602Keywords:
Person agreement, Coordinated subjects, Person hierarchy, Word orderAbstract
The paper deals with person agreement with a coordinate subject containing a personal pronoun. An experimental study was conducted to assess the acceptability of various agreement strategies based on factors such as word order, position of conjuncts, and characteristics of a predicate (unergative / unaccusative predicates). The results of the experiments indicated three possible agreement strategies with coordinate subjects containing a personal pronoun: resolved agreement, closest conjunct agreement, and default 3rd plural agreement. The choice of these strategies was found to be influenced by word order and positions of conjuncts, while the argument structure showed no significant impact on the acceptability of agreement strategies.
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