Closest Conjunct Agreement in Head Final Languages1Closest Conjunct Agreement in Head-Final Languages • December 18th, 2009
In (18), T c-commands ConjP and NP1. Under all of the previous analyses mentioned above, if there is CCA in Hindi we should expect to find it with NP1 rather than NP2 because NP1 is in a closer Agree relation with T(+V) than NP2; however, we find CCA with NP2 rather than with NP1. Specifically, we show below that V/T in Hindi and Tsez can agree with the first as well as last conjunct depending on whether the ConjP appears postverbally or preverbally. It is therefore clear that NP1 is active (and thus capable of participating in an agreement relation) based on the fact that agreement with both conjuncts is an option in Hindi, which can only be possible if the features of NP1 are visible and accessible.9
