One of those who: VP Sg or VP Pl?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Mar 3 04:42:26 UTC 2006


>  >From  ARS Technica:
>
>"I'm one of those lazy hippies who _likes_ to do _her power-computing in bed
>..."
>
>For me, the above is absolutely grammatical. However, I've both heard and
>read
>that this string is ungrammatical and that the grammatical form is:
>
>"I'm one of those lazy hippies who _like_ to do _their_ power-computing in
>bed ..."
>
>Does anyone else care enough to write an opinion?
>
>-Wilson Gray
>
Looks like a case for our agreement guru par excellence.  Arnold?

LH

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