Agreement With Feminine and With Plural Nouns Sample Clauses

Agreement With Feminine and With Plural Nouns. Overall, modifiers occur with the expected ending in six out of ten cases. However, there is strong variation among the different gender/number combinations, ranging from 55% with feminine singular nouns (73/132 occurrences) to around 75% with masculine plural nouns (26/34 occurrences). I suggest that these percentages point to the fact that the speakers are to some extent aware that modifiers have to agree with the noun, and thus they have a mental representation of gender agreement; however, they are inconsistent due to production errors (cfr. the MSIH discussed in § 3). In the following subsections I discuss each gender/number combination separately; then, I illustrate two cases that are particularly problematic: when there is more than one modifier referring to the same noun, and when the modifier is DP-external. 5.2.1 Feminine Singular Nouns The agreement with feminine singular nouns produces the highest error rate. Only around 55% of the modifiers is marked with the feminine morpheme, the remaining 45% are in the default form. Consider these examples:
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Related to Agreement With Feminine and With Plural Nouns

  • Gender and Use of Singular and Plural All pronouns shall be deemed to refer to the masculine, feminine, neuter, singular or plural, as the identity of the party or parties or their personal representatives, successors and assigns may require.

  • Singular and Plural; Gender In this Agreement whenever the male pronoun is used, it shall be deemed to include the female pronoun or vice versa and, likewise, whenever the singular is used, it shall be deemed to include the plural, as the context requires.

  • GENDER AND PLURAL 31.01 Whenever the context so requires, the use of words herein in the singular shall be construed to include the plural, and words in the plural, the singular, and words whether in the masculine, feminine or neuter gender shall be construed to include all of said genders. By the use of either the masculine or feminine genders it is understood that said use is for convenience purposes only and is not to be interpreted to be discriminatory by reason of sex.

  • Gender and Plurals Wherever the context so requires, the masculine gender includes the feminine or neuter, and the singular number includes the plural and conversely.

  • Pronouns and Plurals Whenever the context may require, any pronoun used in this Agreement shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine or neuter forms, and the singular form of nouns, pronouns and verbs shall include the plural and vice versa.

  • HEADINGS; SINGULAR/PLURAL The headings of this Agreement are for convenience of reference and shall not form part of, or affect the interpretation of, this Agreement. Whenever required by the context of this Agreement, the singular shall include the plural and masculine shall include the feminine.

  • Singular, Plural, etc In this Agreement, where the context so admits, words importing the singular number include the plural and vice versa and words importing gender include the masculine, feminine and neuter genders.

  • Genders The masculine, feminine and neuter genders used herein shall include the masculine, feminine and neuter genders.

  • Nouns and Pronouns Whenever the context may require, any pronouns used in this Agreement shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine, or neuter forms, and the singular forms of nouns and pronouns shall include the plural, and vice versa.

  • Singular/Plural All references in this Agreement to the singular shall include the plural where applicable, and all references to gender shall include both genders and the neuter.

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