In Ancient Greek, as well as in other languages, whenever agreement is triggered by\udtwo or more coordinated phrases, two different constructions are allowed: either the\udagreement can be controlled by the coordinated phrase as a whole, or it can be triggered\udby just one of the coordinated words. In spite of the amount of information that can be\udread on this topic in grammars of Ancient Greek, much is still to be known even at a\udgeneral descriptive level. More importantly, the data still lack a convincing explanation.\udIn this paper, we focus on a special domain of agreement (subject and verb agreement)\udand on one morphological feature that is expected to covary (number). We discuss\udthe agreement in number for conjoined phrases, by revising some of the modern\udhypotheses with the support of the empirical evidence that can be collected from the\udavailable syntactically annotated corpora of Ancient Greek (treebanks). Results are\udinterpreted according to syntactic features, cognitive factors and semantic properties\udof the coordinated phrases.
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