The emergence of internal agreement systems
Grammatical agreement means that two linguistic units share certain syntactic or semantic features such as gender, number or person. Agreement has a variety of grammatical functions. One of them, called internal agreement, is to signal which words are grouped together as part of the same phrase. This chapter explores how a population might self-organize such an agreement system. We argue that this happens when speakers attempt to reduce processing effort and avoid ambiguities.
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John Benjamins Publishing
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/127839 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004418 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008367 |
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