| other,7-2-J87-1003,ak | question involves <term> number </term> in <term> | nouns | </term> and <term> reflexive pronouns </term> | #17286 The agreement in question involves number innouns and reflexive pronouns and is syntactic rather than semantic in nature because grammatical number in English, like grammatical gender in languages such as French, is partly arbitrary. | |
| other,78-3-J87-1003,ak | </term> of respectively , whereas other <term> | arguments | </term> have foundered on this problem . | #17395 The formal proof, which makes crucial use of the Interchange Lemma of Ogden et al., is so constructed as to be valid even if English is presumed to contain grammatical sentences in which respectively operates across a pair of coordinate phrases one of whose members has fewer conjuncts than the other; it thus goes through whatever the facts may be regarding constructions with unequal numbers of conjuncts in the scope of respectively, whereas otherarguments have foundered on this problem. |
