Agreement of predicative adjectives

The agreement of predicative adjectives refers to the phenomenon in which both the subject noun and its adjectival predicate1 are marked for grammatical gender (class) and/or number. Prototypically, qualitative adjectives describing size, shape, and color are considered.2

Types:

NoAgr: Agreement is not possible, since neither grammatical gender (class) nor number exists in the language.

NoAdjAgr: Agreement exists,3 but it does not apply to adjectives, either adnominal (attributive) or predicative.

NoPredAdjAgr: Adnominal adjectives can show agreement, while predicative adjectives do not.4

PredAdjAgr: Predicative adjectives show agreement for all grammatical categories that are marked for agreement on adnominal adjectives.

PredAdjNumAgr: Predicative adjectives show only number agreement.

PredAdjClassAgr: Predicative adjectives show only gender (class) agreement.


1: The predicate may or may not include a copula.
2: If these include any regular (non-lexical) exceptions, these should be noted in the commentary.
3: Agreement refers to grammatical gender (class), number, and/or case. Non-adjectival forms of agreement may include adnominal demonstratives.
4: The predicative adjective may appear in a morphologically similar form in terms of case or other categories, including grammatical gender (class) or number.


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