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DESCRIPTION:The goal of this project presentation is twofold. From an emp
 irical perspective\, it is shown that\, in Spanish\, morphologically sin
 gular nouns that denote collectivities [let us use collective nouns] (po
 blación ‘population’\, equipo ‘team’\, familia ‘family’\, etc.) can trig
 ger singular or plural agreement with the verb when appear in subject po
 sition (contrary to what is claim in prescriptive grammars\, cf. NGLE). 
 An original study of naturally occurring data (extracted from the Intern
 et) specifically designed to find this type of non-standard structures s
 howed that plural agreement exists (La familia tienen un papel muy impor
 tante en la sociedad ‘The family havepl an important role in the society
 ’)\, also when these nouns are inserted in partitive constructions (El r
 esto de la familia tienen secretos ‘The rest of the family havepl secret
 s’). From the theoretical perspective\, it seems different subkinds of c
 ollective nouns trigger plural agreement to a different extent (as Fält 
 1972 already noted)\; for example\, uncountable nouns like gente ‘people
 ’ trigger more plural verbal agreement than strictly ‘collective’ nouns 
 (like equipo ‘team’) or ‘aggregate’ nouns. Moreover\, gender patterns mu
 st be considered to fully understand the agreement properties of these n
 ouns (La mitad del equipo está lesionado ‘Halffem of the teammasc issg i
 njuredmasc.sg’\, La mitad del equipo está lesionada ‘Halffem of the team
 masc issg injuredfem.sg’\, La mitad del equipo están lesionados ‘Halffem
  of the teammasc arepl injuredmasc.pl’). Ultimately\, the agreement prop
 erties of these nouns in Spanish challenge current theories of agreement
  within generative models\, that must be refined to account for these pa
 tterns.
URL:https://68stuts.bildungs.cafe/events/425.html
SUMMARY:The plural agreement of morphologically singular and semantically
  plural nouns in Spanish
ORGANIZER:stuts68
LOCATION:stuts68 - Odille Morison
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