Marina Cerebrinsky
2025
Subject-Verb Agreement Alternations in Spanish Pseudopartitive Constructions: A Corpus Study
Marina Cerebrinsky
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (QUASY, SyntaxFest 2025)
Marina Cerebrinsky
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (QUASY, SyntaxFest 2025)
Pseudopartitive constructions, following the format N1-of-N2 (such as a group of students), are known to feature alternations in their subject-verb agreement patterns, either with the N1 or the N2. Through a corpus analysis, this study investigates the possibility of a correlation between the choice of N1/N2 as an agreement trigger and the semantic type of the N1, as well as the animacy status of the N2. Although a positive correlation was found for N1 semantic type, no statistically significant results emerged for N2 animacy.