AGREEMENT IN CONSTRUCTIONS WITH NAMES IN RUSSIAN

In recent works on Russian syntax a syntactic phenomenon called Names (also Long Names, Long Proper Names) keeps being mentioned. The main criteria for an element of the class of Names is that is has its own inner syntactic structure and it denotes an artificial object or a group of people. The paper introduces a number of agreement strategies that appear to be present in sentences with names or titles in subject positions. For Names with a non-nominal internal structure several agreement patterns are complementary distributed among speakers and texts, but also in a single-speaker context.