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Based on data concerning agreement and floated quantifiers from standard English and two non-standard variants, various generalizations are drawn as to when and how the functional head Num is spelled out.
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Kayne, R.S. (1995). Agreement and Verb Morphology in Three Varieties of English. In: Haider, H., Olsen, S., Vikner, S. (eds) Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8416-6_7
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