English Explanatory Dictionary

monstrous agreement

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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”).

Word forms

monstrous agreement

Etymology

Coined by linguist Sandhya Sundaresan in 2011.

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