Article outline

• 6.1The stories of verbal -s
  • 6.1.1Historical, sociolinguistic and pragmatic accounts
  • 6.1.2Non-past contexts in the Panamanian data
• 6.2Coding
  • 6.2.1External factors
  • 6.2.2Language-internal factors
  • 6.2.3A note on Spanish [s]
• 6.3Overview of the data and statistical tools
  • 6.3.1Frequencies for verbal -s
  • 6.3.2Frequencies for verbal zero
  • 6.3.3Random Forests
• 6.4Results: -s with all persons and numbers
  • 6.4.1The 3rd singular
  • 6.4.2The 3rd plural
  • 6.4.3Other persons/numbers
  • 6.4.4Summary
• 6.5Results: Zero in 3rd singular contexts
• 6.6Discussion and conclusion: More than agreement
• Notes