THE AGREEMENT OF ADJECTIVES WITH THE HONORIFIC PRONOUN IN SERBO-CROATIAN
Keywords:
honorific pronouns, hybrid agreement, Serbo-Croatian, one set of agreement features hypothesisAbstract
The paper is a reply to Wechsler (2011) developed into an extension of the model presented in Alsina & Arsenijević (2012c). It starts by setting straight some of the empirical errors and shortcomings of Wechsler, with a special accent on the behavior of adnominal adjectives pre- and postnominally, and continues into an fine-tuning of an approach based on only two sets of features and a case hierarchy, in order to account for the presented data. It is shown that such an analysis is sufficient, and that the introduction of a third set of features (a second set of syntactic features) is superfluous.
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