Morphosyntactic Types of Lexical Subjects

    Table 1 below indicates the types of lexical subjects found in the data and the token numbers for those types.
 
Type The Possessive Proper Demons Temporal Mass/Pl Quantifier A/An Misc
Tokens 1070 724 234 171 11 322 261 65 25
Table 1.  Morphosyntactic types of lexical subjects.

Table 1 is divided into two sections.  The light yellow section displays the formally indefinite lexical subjects.  The uncolored section displays the formally definite lexical subjects.  These data are shown graphically in Figure 1: Morphosyntactic Types of Lexical Subjects and Objects  and in Figure 2: Definite versus Indefinite Lexical Subjects and Objects.
 

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