Chapter 6. Verbal -s and verbal zero

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Chapter 6
Verbal -s and verbal zero

Published online: 21 August 2023

Article outline

6.1The stories of verbal -s
- 6.1.1Historical, sociolinguistic and pragmatic accounts
- 6.1.2Non-past contexts in the Panamanian data
6.2Coding
- 6.2.1External factors
- 6.2.2Language-internal factors
- 6.2.3A note on Spanish [s]
6.3Overview of the data and statistical tools
- 6.3.1Frequencies for verbal -s
- 6.3.2Frequencies for verbal zero
- 6.3.3Random Forests
6.4Results: -s with all persons and numbers
- 6.4.1The 3rd singular
- 6.4.2The 3rd plural
- 6.4.3Other persons/numbers
- 6.4.4Summary
6.5Results: Zero in 3rd singular contexts
6.6Discussion and conclusion: More than agreement
Notes