Common Contracts

Unifying first and last conjunct agreement

January 30th, 2009

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  January 30th, 2009

In addition to first-conjunct agreement (FCA), which is quite frequent crosslinguistically, several languages have the rather rare phenomenon (for head-initial languages) of last-conjunct agreement (LCA).1 One such language is Serbo-Croatian (SC). As shown in (1), with postverbal subjects, SC participles exhibit FCA (for gender), and with preverbal subjects LCA (also for gender).2