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Linglib.Fragments.German.AdjAgreement

German Adjective Agreement #

@cite{alexeyenko-zeijlstra-2025}

German predicative adjectives are bare (uninflected): Er ist stolz 'He is proud.' Attributive adjectives carry strong/weak/mixed agreement endings inflected for gender, number, and case: stolzer Vater 'proud father' (38), (60).

Because predicative and attributive forms differ, predAttrSameAgreement is false, and the MAG correctly predicts that German obeys the HFF. The attributivizer is affixal (the agreement ending itself is the spellout of Attr), so the ICP forces adjacency.

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def Fragments.German.AdjAgreement.predFeatures :
List Minimalism.Modification.MAGFeatureType

German predicative adjectives carry NO agreement features (bare).

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    def Fragments.German.AdjAgreement.attrFeatures :
    List Minimalism.Modification.MAGFeatureType

    German attributive adjectives carry φ + κ (strong endings).

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      def Fragments.German.AdjAgreement.dpFeatures :
      List Minimalism.Modification.MAGFeatureType

      All φ/κ-features available in the German DP.

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        def Fragments.German.AdjAgreement.entry :
        Minimalism.Modification.AdjAgreementEntry
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          theorem Fragments.German.AdjAgreement.not_same_agreement :
          entry.sameAgreement = false

          German pred ≠ attr: predicative is bare.