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Reply to Saksena: Further reflections on verb agreement in Hindi

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Book ID: 111941293
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
Year: 1985
Tongue: English
Weight: 711 KB
Volume: 23
Category: Article
ISSN: 0024-3949
DOI: 10.1515/ling.1985.23.1.143

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It is possible to state verb agreement in Hindi in terms of word order and surface case, with no reference to grammatical relations: the verb agrees with the leftmost phonologically null instance of case marking (Saksena 1981: 468). It is questioned whether this is, however, the correct statement of