Line from TV ad

[Laurence Horn]

I believe there are extensive discussions of this somewhere (Ben will know where) on Language Log and/or Arnold Zwicky's blog, as well of the related "agreement with the closest/nearest" in conjoined structures. 

LH

On Sep 23, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Eric Nielsen wrote:

> Also called "attraction".
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> Eric
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> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:39 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Wikipi s.v. synesis, aka constructio ad sensum, constructio kata
>> synesin, notional agreement, notional concord.  Matter-of-factly
>> described in any Indo-European handbook.
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