Abstract
This chapter is concerned with the phenomenon of mixed agreement, where a single [+ human] noun phrase may (simultaneously) trigger syntactic agreement (for its inherent, grammatical gender) and semantic agreement (for the real‐world gender of the individual that it denotes). To deal with this phenomenon Aa return to feature‐checking is proposed as a basis for syntactic agreement: non‐inherent f‐features must be licensed by either being matched to inherent f‐features on their sister or by being semantically interpreted, i.e., by introducing the relevant presupposition. On the semantic side, I suggest that the presuppositions associated with LF‐interpreted f‐features are identity functions on predicates rather than entities, which permits mixed agreement inside noun phrases to be dealt with.
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