Icelandic finite verb agreementIcelandic Finite Verb Agreement • July 19th, 2006
Nonagreement with nominative subjects would yield the underspecification in (36a).8 Conversely, agreement (of a verb or a predicate) with quirky subjects would result in the overspecification in (36b). Taraldsen (1994) suggests that featural overspecification of this sort is ruled out by the principle of econonmy of representation: instead of favoring smaller trees over bigger ones in the same candidate set, he suggests, "the relevant evluation metric actually counts specified features rather than nodes" (p. 49).
