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Attraction of pronoun to its predicate NP
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When the subject is a demonstrative or relative pronoun, it takes the gender and number of tis predicate NP, when the latter is a substantive. Thus one will usually not encounter *τοῦτο ἐστὶν ἀρετή, but rather αὕτη ἐστὶν ἀρετή ‘That is virtue’.
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In Latin this form of attraction also exists, but there it is obligatory.