Definiteness and Verbs
Dunstan Brown
d.brown at SURREY.AC.UK
Thu Oct 28 08:31:20 UTC 1999
Dear ALT Discussion List,
It appears to be the case that we would not expect a language to have a
verb which agrees in definiteness with one of its arguments. In saying
this, we do not intend to refer to verbs which agree in other properties
only in the environment of a definite NP, i.e. where definiteness is a
prerequisite for agreement. Does anybody know of any counterexamples and
also does anyone know if this claim has been made before?
Thanks
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Dunstan Brown
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