Predictions. A phonetic/ morphological reason for lack of predicative adjectives agreement: the erosion of endings found throughout the Germanic and Romance languages. A syntactic reason reason for lack of predicative adjectives agreement: That head-final AdjPs do not have spec-X° agreement, cf. the preceding sections. This particular syntactic reason does not apply to attributive adjectives. Presupposing that there are no other reasons why adjectives should lack agreement, the following predictions are made: (26) 1. Languages with head-final AdjPs do not have agreement on predicative adjectives.
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Sources: Postgraduate Seminar Paper
Predictions. A phonetic/ morphological reason for lack of predicative adjectives agreement: the erosion of endings found throughout the Germanic and Romance languages. A syntactic reason reason for lack of predicative adjectives agreement: That head-final AdjPs do not have spec-X° agreement, cf. the preceding sections. This particular syntactic reason does not apply to attributive adjectives. Presupposing that there are no other reasons why adjectives should lack agreement, the following predictions are made:
(26) 1. Languages with head-final AdjPs do not have agreement on predicative adjectives.
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Sources: Academic Conference Paper