Re: Agreement Idea
| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 13:17 |
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2007/5/30, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>:
> Then at this point, I suppose you could associate whatever
> pragmatic meaning (or even grammatical meaning) you wanted
> to the use of agreement. Perhaps the only way a verb could be
> fronted was if it was fronted with the NP it agrees with...
>
But in that case, wouldn't the agreement simply drop off the verb
after a while, because it wouldn't serve any purpose unfulfilled by
virtue of syntax? Because verb-fronting generally emphasises the verb,
i.e. the action of giving, itself, whereas if the NP were fronted as
well it would blunt or lose the emphasis; if the purpose were to front
the NP then the verb wouldn't need to be fronted either.
Eugene
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