| Lemma | agreement |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Dik (1989) |
| Titolo | The theory of functional grammar. Part I: the structure of the clause |
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| Citazioni | Agreement obtains between two constituents when the formal expression of one of them (say, B) depends on some independently varying property (say, Gender) of the other constituent (A). In such a case we say that B agrees with A in Gender. A may be called the “Source”, B the “Target” of the agreement relation, and Gender would (in this case) be the category of A to which B is sensitive […]:
(15) ‘Target’ ‘Source’ ‘Category’
B agrees with A in Gender
[…]. |