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Subject-verb agreement and covert raising to subject in Finnish *November 8th, 2005
This paper examines the relationship between the morphological realization of subject case and subject-verb agreement in Finnish, in particular problems that are brought up by a group of raising constructions. It focusses on the connection between the syntactic checking of a subject’s [case] feature and the morphological interpretation of this case, as well as on how the [phi] feature checking requirements of verbs affect this morphological realization. I argue that all subjects, whether morphologically nominative or quirky, check only a single generalized [case] feature during syntactic computation, rather than checking some more specified feature such as [nominative], [genitive] or [ablative].1 I also show that this [case] feature checking takes place covertly.
