Last-Conjunct Agreement in Slovenian

Abstract

In this paper we present a discussion of Slovenian conjunct agreement phenomena, arguing that in one of the two strategies for determining agreement, agreement is simply linear; that is, verbal forms agree with the closest nominal of the conjunct. This paper is one of the first overviews of these phenomena in Slovenian and thus we view our contribution as largely empirical, supporting our claim with a corpus study. We show that existing analyses cannot explain the Slovenian facts, in particular the cases of preverbal, last-conjunct agreement. For comparison, we will show some accounts of linear agreement elsewhere in natural language. We present an analysis which highlights a crucial role for the possibility of separate gender and number probes.

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