Abstract
AbstractIn Bregagliotto and Mesolcinese, two Lombard Alpine dialects, feminine plural agreement/concord is marked by the formative -n, a reflex of the third person plural verbal ending. In Bregagliotto, plural -ntriggers mesoclisis of the feminine subject clitic in contexts of inversion, whereas in the noun phrase -nbehaves as a second-position element marking plural feminine concord. Mesolcinese exhibits verbal gender agreement as the formative -noccurs on the inflected verb whenever a feminine plural subject or the feminine plural object clitic occurs; in feminine plural DPs, -nis attached to any element except the definite article. I argue that the Bregagliotto system emerged when -nwas reanalysed as an adjunct pluraliser, whereas in Mesolcinese -nhas been turned into a marker of morphophonological concord/agreement.
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