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Squishing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

John Robert Ross
John Robert Ross*
Affiliation:
Language Research Foundation and MIT
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Extract

There are two arguments for postulating the existence of a rule which derives (some) plurals from conjoined singulars. This rule would convert (1a) to (1b).

(1) a. *The mani and the manj are different.

b. The meni,j are different.

The first argument derives from French agreement. Adjectives agree across the copula in number and gender with their subjects.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 17 , Issue 2-3 , 1972 , pp. 180 - 183
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1972

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