Pancake sentence
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pancake-sentence-181-10903238
title:
Pancake sentence
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Pancake sentences are a phenomenon in Scandinavian languages where sentence agreement does not follow conventional linguistic patterns. An example from Swedish is the sentence Pannkakor är nyttigt, meaning "Pancakes are healthy". There is an apparent disagreement between pannkakor and nyttigt. This is similar to notional agreement in English, where American English speakers might say "the team has arrived", syntactically agreeing the singular team, versus British English speakers saying "the tea
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Linguistic phenomenon in Scandinavian languages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sentence
date created:
2014-11-24T05:01:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T11:58:03Z
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