Predicate agreement with coordinated subjects in Russian

Daria Belova1, Tatiana Davidyuk2
1,2Lomonosov Moscow State University / 1Interdisciplinary Scientific and Educational School of Moscow University “Brain, Cognitive Systems, Artificial Intelligence” / 2Institute of Linguistics RAS

Abstract: The article presents an experimental study of predicative agreement with a coordinate subject containing personal pronouns in Russian. We compared the acceptability of different agreement strategies depending on word order, conjunct order, and tense of the verb. The results of the experiments showed that in the constructions with coordinate subjects containing personal pronouns, three strategies are possible — resolution agreement, closest conjunct agreement, and default agreement.

Keywords: predicate agreement, coordinate subject, person hierarchy, the Russian language

For citation: Belova D., Davidyuk T. Predicate agreement with coordinated subjects in Russian. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters. 2022. Vol. 5, iss. 1. Pp. 13–34. (In Rus.)