monstrous agreement
nounEtymology
Coined by linguist Sandhya Sundaresan in 2011.
Definitions
The phenomenon, in certain languages, of anaphoric references within an item of reported…
The phenomenon, in certain languages, of anaphoric references within an item of reported speech to the subject of the report agreeing in the first person (equivalent to *“He said that he am coming”).
- Why can’t we analyze them as quotation (full or partial/mixed)? Because grammatical dependencies cannot cross quotation marks, whereas in monstrous agreement they do.
- Interestingly, not all speakers accept the monstrous agreement pattern. There are speakers for whom examples like (3a) sound very unnatural (while not totally ungrammatical).
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for monstrous agreement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA