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    • The subject (glossing abbreviations: SUB or SU) is, according to a tradition that can be traced back to Aristotle (and that is associated with phrase structure grammars), one of the two main constituents of a clause, the other constituent being the predicate, whereby the predicate says something about the subject. According to a tradition associated with predicat… See more

    Overview

    A subject is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the predicate, which modifies the subject).
    For … See more

    Criteria for identifying subjects

    There are several criteria for identifying subjects:
    1. Subject-verb agreement: The subject agrees with the finite verb in person and number, e.g. I am vs. *I is.
    2. Position occupied: T… See more

    Coordinated sentences

    One criterion for identifying a subject in various languages is the possibility of its omission in coordinated sentences such as the following: The man hit the woman and [the man] came here.
    In a passiv… See more

    Difficult cases

    There are certain constructions that challenge the criteria just introduced for identifying subjects. The following subsections briefly illustrate three such cases: 1) existential there-constructions, 2) inverse cop… See more

     
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