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Semantic and syntactic agreement in RussianResearch Paper • January 29th, 2022
Agreement can be seen as a window into the mind’s representation of the interface between form and meaning. This is because distinctions in formal features, such as number or grammatical gender, correlate with distinctions in the real world, such as numerosity or natural gender. In order to understand the nature of this interface, it is informative to consider cases where there is a conflict between syntactic and semantic agreement. For example, in Russian, the word vrach (“doctor”) is syntactically masculine, but it may refer to a female individual. Thus, an agreeing element will bear either masculine or feminine features depending on whether semantic or syntactic agreement is involved.
