2 papers
cs.CL2026
Quantifying the cross-linguistic effects of syncretism on agreement attraction
Utku Turk, Eva Neu
Agreement attraction errors, in which a verb erroneously agrees with an intervening noun rather than its grammatical head, are amplified by morphological syncretism in some languag…
cs.CL2025
Interpretable dimensions support an effect of agentivity and telicity on split intransitivity
Eva Neu, Brian Dillon, Katrin Erk
Intransitive verbs fall into two different syntactic classes, unergatives and unaccusatives. It has long been argued that verbs describing an agentive action are more likely to app…