Number Agreement of Coordinated Subjects: Competing Syntactic and Semantic Rules
Manfred Krifka, Modarresi Fereshteh · Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory · 2025
We investigate number agreement in coordinated subjects, including disjunctions and conjunctions of singular universal quantifier. Experimental data from German reveals that they often allow for singular agreement. We argue that there is a competition between semantic and syntactic agreement, and that the latter is a generalization of the former.