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# Oral Presentation for "Agreement with Disjoined Subjects in German"

Preferred citation (DataCite format):

  Himmelreich, Anke; Hartmann, Katharina (2021).
  Oral Presentation for "Agreement with Disjoined Subjects in German".
  University of Arizona Research Data Repository.
  Presentation. https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14481699


Corresponding Author:
  Anke Himmelreich, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, himmelreich@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de


License:
  CC BY 4.0


DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14481699



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## Summary

This talk was presented on 2021 April 8 - 11 at the [39th meeting of the West
Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics](https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/).

  

Provided abstract:

In this talk, we present the findings of our experiments on agreement with
disjunctive coordinations in Standard German and we analyze our findings in
Optimality Theory. We observe that number agreement resolves to PL unless both
disjuncts are SG. With singular disjuncts there is optionality between PL and
SG agreement. We develop an account that considers the semantic number feature
of disjunction. We also discuss person agreement as well as effects of word
order and syncretisms on agreement.  



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## Additional Notes

Links:
  - https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/

This presentation is part of the 2021 West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics collection, which is available here:
https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.c.5325401