Publications

Publication details [#64666]

Schnell, Stefan. 2018. Whence subject-verb agreement? Investigating the role of topicality, accessibility, and frequency in Vera’a texts. Linguistics 56 (4) : 735–780.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accessibility | grammaticalization | subject | topicality | verb

Language as a subject

Vera’a

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This study explores three usage-based approaches – Givón’s NP detachment under topicalization, Ariel’s accessibility theory, and a set of accounts in terms of frequency-driven morphologization – in the light of corpus data from the Oceanic language Vera’a.