@article{4b115fca-d4b6-449b-b76b-3cb98eb1a437,
  abstract     = {{<p>In three empirical studies, we compare one syntactic and one semantic approach to agreement preferences in so-called pancake constructions (pcs) in Swedish, as in Senap är starkt ‘Mustard is strong’.pcs are either substance-denoting, naming an inherent property of the subject, or situation-denoting, naming a property of the subject that is linked to some event. These two types were found to differ in predicative agreement patterns when their subjects were modified (e.g. Skånsk senap är … ‘Scanian mustard is’). The studies also indicate that the presence of a modal verb can affect agreement patterns differently in the two types: substance-denoting pcs were affected by modification and modality to a much larger extent than situation-denoting ones. We conclude that the two approaches can explain some patterns, but leave others unexplained, and the results lend partial support to analyses that make a syntactic difference between the two types of pcs.</p>}},
  author       = {{Klingvall, Eva and Beijer, Fabian and Heinat, Fredrik}},
  issn         = {{0332-5865}},
  keywords     = {{modality; morphological agreement; pre-modification; predicative adjectives; Swedish}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Cambridge University Press}},
  series       = {{Nordic Journal of Linguistics}},
  title        = {{Empirical investigations of agreement in pancake constructions}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0332586525100723}},
  doi          = {{10.1017/S0332586525100723}},
  year         = {{2026}},
}