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Himmelreich, Anke, Melissa Jeckel, Katharina Hartmann, Johannes Mursell (2021): Agreement with Coordinated Subjects in the World's Languages [Data set]. Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main (Link: https://www.multivaluation.de/database.php)
Overview
Language family: | Indo-European (Romance)
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Countries: | Italy
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Number of speakers: | 420,000
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Agreement features: | number, person
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Attested word orders: | SV
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Coordination types: | and, or
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Data Collection
The data were entered by a native speaker via an online survey.
Patterns for number
Coordination with ``and''
SV order
Pattern: The number on the verb is plural in all cases.
1st | 2nd | sg | pl
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sg | pl | pl
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pl | pl | pl
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Examples:
(1) | Il | fantat | e | l'om | a | corin. |
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| the.sg | boy.sg | and | the-man.sg | they | run.3pl |
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| `The boy and the man run.'
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(2) | I | fantas | e | l'om | a | corin. |
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| the.pl | boy.pl | and | the-man.sg | they | run.3pl |
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| `The boys and the man run.'
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(3) | Il | fantat | e | i | omps | a | corin. |
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| the.sg | boy.sg | and | the.pl | man.pl | they | run.3pl |
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| `The boy and the men run.'
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(4) | I | fantas | e | i | omps | a | corin. |
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| the.pl | boy.pl | and | the.pl | man.pl | they | run.3pl |
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| `The boys and the men run.'
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Coordination with ``or''
SV order
Pattern: The number on the verb is plural in all cases.
1st | 2nd | sg | pl
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sg | pl | pl
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pl | pl | pl
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Examples:
(7) | Il | fantat | o | l'om | a | corin. |
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| the.sg | boy.sg | or | the-man.sg | they | run.3pl |
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| `The boy or the man run.'
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(8) | I | fantas | o | l'om | a | corin. |
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| the.pl | boy.pl | or | man.sg | they | run.3pl |
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| `The boys or the man run.'
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(9) | Il | fantat | o | i | omps | a | corin. |
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| the.sg | boy.sg | or | the.pl | man.pl | they | run.3pl |
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| `The boy or the men run.'
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(10) | I | fantas | o | i | omps | a | corin. |
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| the.pl | boy.pl | or | the.pl | man.pl | they | run.3pl |
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| `The boys or the men run.'
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Patterns for person
Coordination with ``and''
SV order
Pattern: In all cases, person seems to be resolved according to the hierarchy 1 > 2> 3. (Note: number is resolved to plural.)
1st | 2nd | 1 | 2 | 3
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1 | | 1pl | 1pl
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2 | 1pl | |
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3 | 1pl | |
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Examples:
(13) | Tu | e | jo | i | corìn. |
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| you | and | I | we | run.1pl |
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| 'You and I run.'
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(14) | Jo | e | tu | i | corìn. |
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| I | and | you | we | run.1pl |
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| 'I and you run.'
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(15) | Nô | e | lôr | i | corìn. |
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| we | and | they | we | run.1pl |
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| 'We and they run.'
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(16) | Lôr | e | nô | i | corìn. |
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| they | and | we | we | run.1pl |
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| 'They and we run.'
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Coordination with ``or''
SV order
Pattern: In all cases, person seems to be resolved according to the hierarchy 1 > 2> 3. (Note: number is resolved to plural.)
1st | 2nd | 1 | 2 | 3
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1 | | 1pl | 1pl
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2 | 1pl | |
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3 | 1pl | |
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Examples:
(17) | Tu | o | jo | i | corìn. |
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| you | or | I | we | run.1pl |
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| 'You or I run.'
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(18) | Jo | o | tu | i | corìn. |
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| I | or | you | we | run.1pl |
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| 'I or you run.'
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(19) | Nô | o | lôr | i | corìn. |
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| We | or | they | we | run.1pl |
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| 'We or they run.'
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(20) | Lôr | o | nô | i | corìn. |
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| they | or | we | we | run.1pl |
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| 'They or we run.'
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