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2026
Germanic Adjectives and the Agr(eement) Head
Elliott Evans
Abstrak
This article unifies two adjectival phenomena of Germanic languages: the double definiteness of Norwegian, Swedish, and Faroese, and the attributive-only inflection of West Germanic adjectives. I argue that the functional head Agr(eement) is responsible for both. Since Agr can perform only one of these two functions in a given language (the second definiteness marker of Scandinavian and the attributive inflection of West Germanic), these two phenomena are in complementary distribution. *
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Elliott Evans
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Informasi Jurnal
- Tahun Terbit
- 2026
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1017/s1470542726100166
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- Open Access ✓