The present study investigated the following: ⅰ) how NPs bearing differing GRs behave with respect to two proposed subject diagnostics - Honorific Agreement (HA) and Plural Copying on adverbs (PC) and ⅱ) whether scrambling allows non-Subject GRs to control these properties. An experimental investigation using Magnitude Estimation (ME) was conducted. The result revealed that the sentences with Subject NP controller got higher acceptability scores compared to non-Subject NP controllers for both diagnostics and that scrambling did not have an effect on acceptability. While both HA and PC showed a similar pattern of preference for Subject controllers, the contrast between Subject and non-Subject controllers was more pronounced with HA.
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