verb-subject agreement
| From: | Andrew Strader <guido@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 21, 2002, 20:08 |
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An interesting question has been brought to my attention, and I would like
to get a broad linguistic perspective on it. Are there natural languages
which exhibit subject-verb agreement in which it happens that when the
subject consists of a pronoun and a noun, the pronoun can be elided, making
an apparent disagreement between the verb and the subject? Such a language
would demonstrate the following structure:
"John and I go."
John[NOM] go[1st.pl.]
John we-go.
And of course, does anyone incorporate such a thing in their conlang(s)?
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