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Abstract: The present work explores unexpected verb number patterns with Finnish numeral-noun constructions with count nouns (e.g. three birds) in subject position. Finnish numeral-noun subjects are semantically plural but the noun is spelled out as morphologically singular. Numeral-noun subjects typically occur with singular verbs, but can, surprisingly, also occur with plural verbs. This is unexpected as the nouns themselves are morphologically realized as singular. I argue for a semantic account of this apparent number mismatch. Specifically, I propose that plural verb agreement is associated with certain semantic properties, in particular a high level of referential stability. I explore the idea that this phenomenon is a kind of differential subject marking (DSM).
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