A note on verbal agreement in MaungFootnote∗

I would like to thank Alan Dench for his detailed and insightful comments on an earlier version of this paper, which substantially improved both the analysis and presentation, Charles Reiss for his perceptive comments which have improved the clarity of the presentation, and Cathryn Donohue for her technical support of this work.

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