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Himmelreich, Anke, Melissa Jeckel, Katharina Hartmann, Johannes Mursell (2021): Agreement with Coordinated Subjects in the World's Languages [Data set]. Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main (Link: https://www.multivaluation.de/database.php)
Overview
| Language family: | Indo-European (Romance)
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| Countries: | Italy, Slovenia, Croatia
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| Number of speakers: | 3.9 million
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| Agreement features: | number, person
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| Attested word orders: | SV
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| Coordination types: | and, or
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Data Collection
The data were entered by a native speaker via an online survey.
Patterns for number
Coordination with ``and''
SV order
Pattern: Number is not marked in 3rd person.
Examples:
| (1) | el | fio | e | l | omo | core |
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| the.pl | boy.sg | and | the.sg | man.sg | run.3 |
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| `The boy and the man run.'
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| (2) | i | fioi | e | l | omo | core |
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| the.pl | boy.pl | and | the.sg | man.sg | run.3 |
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| `The boys and the man run.'
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| (3) | el | fio | e | i | tosi | core |
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| the.sg | boy.sg | and | the.pl | man.pl | run.3 |
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| `The boy and the men run.'
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| (4) | i | fioi | e | i | tosi | core |
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| the.pl | boy.pl | and | the.pl | man.pl | run.3 |
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| `The boys and the men run.'
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Coordination with ``or''
SV order
Pattern: Number is not marked in 3rd person.
Examples:
| (6) | ol | omo | ol | fio | core |
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| or-the.pl | man.pl | or-the.pl | boy.pl | run.3sg
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| 'The boy or the man run.'
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Patterns for person
Coordination with ``and''
SV order
Pattern: There seem to be hierarchy effects. (Number is resolved to plural.) In the combination 1&3, a comitative construction is used.
Examples:
| (8) | coremo |
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| run.1pl |
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| `You and I run.'
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| (9) | me | e | ti | coremo |
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| I | and | you | run.1pl |
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| `I and you run.'
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| (10) | noaltri | co | lori | coremo |
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| We | with | they | run.1pl |
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| Lit.: `We run with them.'
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| (11) | lori | core | co | noaltri |
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| They | run.3 | with | we
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| `They run with us.'
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Coordination with ``or''
SV order
Pattern: With ``or'', two clauses are disjoined rather than two subjects.
Examples:
| (12) | i | core | o | coremo | noaltri |
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| cl.subj.pl | run.3 | or. | run.1pl | we |
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| 'We or they run.'
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| (13) | i | core | o | coremo | noaltri |
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| cl.subj.pl | run.3 | or. | run.1pl | we |
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| 'They or we run.'
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