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Conjunct Agreement and Gender in South Slavic: From Theory to Experiments to TheoryConjunct Agreement • September 15th, 2016
Jana Willer-Gold, Boban Arsenijevic, Mia Batinic, Nermina Čordalija, Marijana Uresic, Nedžad Leko, Franc Lanko Maru¿ič, Tanja Milicev, Nata¿a Milicevic, Ivana Mitic, Andrew Nevins, Anita teti-Stantic, Branimir Stankovic, Tina Šuligoj, Jelena Tu¿ek
Conjunct Agreement and Gender in South Slavic: From Theory to Experiments to TheoryConjunct Agreement • July 5th, 2016
Abstract: Agreement with coordinated subjects in Slavic languages has recently seen a rapid increase in theoretical and experimental approaches, contributing to a wider theoretical discussion on the locus of agreement in grammar (cf. Marušič, Nevins, and Saksida 2007; Bošković 2009; Marušič, Nevins, and Badecker 2015). This paper revisits the theoretical predictions proposed for conjunction agreement in a group of South Slavic languages, with a special focus on gender agreement. The paper is based on two experiments involving speakers of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS) and Slovenian (Sln). Experiment 1 is an elicited production experiment investigating preverbal-conjunct agreement, while Experiment 2 investigates postverbal-conjunct agreement. The data provide experimental evidence discriminating between syntax proper and distributed-agreement models in terms of their ability to account for pre- verbal highest-conjunct agreement and present a theoretical mechanism for the dis- tinction
