The term “agreement” usually refers to a relation between two or more items in a sentence or a phrase. This relation can be explicitly (i.e. morphologically) marked, or not. According to Steele (1978:610), ‘[t]he term agreement commonly refers to some...19 Agreement • August 1st, 2019
Contract Type FiledAugust 1st, 2019This definition draws a distinction between a syntactic dependency, called agreement, and its marking, usually also called agreement in the literature. This chapter will consider both the syntactic and the morphological aspects of agreement.