Idiosyncratic (Dis)agreement Patterns: The Structure and Diachrony of Russian Paucal Subjects

@article{Madariaga2017IdiosyncraticP,  title={Idiosyncratic (Dis)agreement Patterns: The Structure and Diachrony of Russian Paucal Subjects},  author={Nerea Madariaga and Iv{\'a}n Igartua},  journal={Scando-Slavica},  year={2017},  volume={63},  pages={132 - 99},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:149279486}}
ABSTRACT Paucal constructions are unanimously considered one of the most puzzling areas of Russian grammar. The expressions containing lower numerals (dva/dve ‘two’, tri ‘three’, četyre ‘four’, as well as oba/obe ‘both’) display special morphosyntactic properties that have attracted the attention of many scholars. In this paper, we contribute to the debate on Russian paucal expressions in subject function by arguing that their historical development can clarify certain aspects of their… 

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