In English, verbs that occur after conjoined subjects are required to be plural. However, the verbs that occur before the subject nouns seem to have more flexibility in agreement. In this paper, by reviewing Sch?tze"s (1999) processing effect, whi...
In English, verbs that occur after conjoined subjects are required to be plural. However, the verbs that occur before the subject nouns seem to have more flexibility in agreement. In this paper, by reviewing Sch?tze"s (1999) processing effect, which is suggested to argue that singular agreement with plural associates in expletive constructions conforms to the grammar and is not the result of a virus, I"d like to show that asymmetry like this can be accounted for as grammatical phenomenon rather than superficial one. And then I tried to find a solution to the asymmetry problem by using the syntactic operation through Agreement in Chomsky (2000) and by applying Ninuma & Park"s (2003) analysis, which shows the asymmetry between Move and Agreement.