NP closest conjunct agreement in Portuguese: a cartographic approach
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This squib investigates adjective agreement with the closest coordinated NP in Portuguese. Using a qualitative analysis of secondary data from Villavicencio and Sadler (2005), it examines cases where adjectives agree with the nearest NP while semantically modifying the entire CoordP. Two derivational proposals are compared: an ellipsis-based approach and a base-merge-order approach. Both account for the data, but the base-merge-order derivation seems more economical and requires fewer speculative operations. Pending questions include experimental validation of these derivations and whether similar agreement patterns appear in other Romance languages.
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