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Linglib.Fragments.Italian.AdjAgreement

Italian Adjective Agreement #

@cite{alexeyenko-zeijlstra-2025}

Italian adjectives are inflected for gender and number (φ-features) in both predicative and attributive use, but NOT for case (κ-features). The agreement forms are identical across positions (36).

Under the MAG, Italian fails condition (a) because φ/κ-completeness requires case marking: agreementPhiKappaComplete = false. Since the Attr head is null and affixal (carrying κ-features), the ICP forces adjacency. Italian prenominal adjectives therefore obey the HFF. The analysis is given in (72).

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def Fragments.Italian.AdjAgreement.phiFeatures :
List Minimalism.Modification.MAGFeatureType

Italian adjective φ-features: number and gender only.

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    def Fragments.Italian.AdjAgreement.dpFeatures :
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    Italian DP features include κ (case is always a DP feature per fn 17, even when not morphologically realized on adjectives).

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      def Fragments.Italian.AdjAgreement.entry :
      Minimalism.Modification.AdjAgreementEntry
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        theorem Fragments.Italian.AdjAgreement.same_agreement :
        entry.sameAgreement = true

        Italian pred = attr (both carry φ).

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        theorem Fragments.Italian.AdjAgreement.not_phi_kappa_complete :
        entry.phiKappaComplete = false

        Italian is NOT φ/κ-complete: adjectives lack case.