Etymology

monstrous agreement

Today it means: The phenomenon, in certain languages, of anaphoric references within an item of reported speech to the subject of the report agreeing in the first person (equivalent to *“He said that he am coming”). Full definition →

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Coined by linguist Sandhya Sundaresan in 2011.

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