Abstract
This paper aims to examine (i) if Agree for the identification of jussive subjects in Pak, Portner and Zanuttini (2008a,b) (PPZ) and Zanuttini, Pak, and Portner (2011) (ZPP) is properly formulated (ii) how the subjects of jussive complements in Korean are identified. It is argued that the precise formulation of Agree has not been applied to the analysis of jussives in PPZ, but the agreement relation in ZPP is better formulated fitting the original Agree operation. It is proposed that whereas root jussives may have the Jussive head with person features, embedded jussives may have the Jussive head without person features as the T head does not have phi-features in non-finite clauses. The embedded Jussive head with the fixed person feature value leads PPZ to assume the reference shifting mechanism by which the process to identify the subjects of jussive complements is complicated: valuation by Agree and then reference shifting. It is argued that without person features on the embedded Jussive head, the movement theory of control (MTC) is able to identify the subjects of jussive complements without recourse to the reference shifting mechanism.
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