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Agreement. Working Papers on Language Universals, No. 5.
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Moravcsik, Edith A. – 1971
The paper constitutes an attempt to provide a nonenumerative characterization of agreeing terms and agreement features. The following pertinent statements turn out to be (near) exceptionless: only coreferential terms agree, and for any given language all agreement features are pronominal ones. Four agreement features, gender, number, definiteness,…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Componential Analysis, Grammar, Language Patterns
Determination. Working Papers on Language Universals, No. 1.
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Moravcsik, Edith A. – 1969
This paper argues that the hypothesis that all languages have a definitization process is empirically refutable, and that use of the terminology "definite" and "indefinite" is justified in that it reflects intuitions of grammarians and linguists. The following statements are tested against evidence from samples of different languages: (1) all noun…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Determiners (Languages), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar