Agreement Systems -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- References -- 1. Are we in Agreement? -- Introduction -- 1. Instances of Nominative Case beyond English -- 2. Featural properties of T -- 3. Obligatory control in Romanian -- 4. Against multiple Case valuation -- 5. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 2. From hierarchies to features -- 1. Person splits, hierarchies and markedness -- 2. Ergativity: Core assumptions -- 3. Th e syntax of splits: Case distinctions refl ect diff erent types of vs -- 4. Inverse systems -- 5. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 3. Finiteness and the relation between Agreement and Nominative Case -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tensed-S Condition and Specifi ed Subject Condition -- 3. What marks fi niteness in Turkic languages? -- 4. Finiteness as nominative case and phases -- 5. Can this analysis be extended to other languages? -- 6. Infl ected Infi nitives with Nominative Subjects -- 7. The prediction of the proposed analysis: Th e ECM Hypothesis -- 8. Theoretical implications and conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 4. Case and agreement with genitive of quantifi cation in Russian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Case -- 3. Agreement -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5. How sentences grow in the mind -- 1. The interplay of local syntax and interface conditions -- 2. The problem of case assignment to participles -- 3. Feature Sharing -- 4. δ-agreement -- 5. Chains, the Chain Condition, and locality -- 6. Expletives -- 7. Quirky case in Icelandic -- 8. Selection: A local solution to a global problem -- Notes -- References -- 6. Agreement confi gurations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. DP internal agreement: agreement patterns in Maasai DPs -- 3. Long distance agreement -- 4. Icelandic -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

7. Agree in syntax, agreement in signs -- 1. Minimal feature syntax: a general outline -- 2. Agree, Merge, matching, Move -- 3. Agreement: Th e Icelandic case -- 4. Phi-feature matching and the Person Restriction -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 8. Standard Arabic subject-verb agreement asymmetry revisited in an Agree-based minimalist syntax -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Th e subject-verb agreement asymmetry in Standard Arabic -- 3. A Spec-head agreement approach to the SVAA -- 4. Agreement with pronominal subjects and the status of preverbal DPs -- 5. Standard Arabic SVAA in an Agree-based framework -- 6. Some empirical consequences of the Agree-based analysis of SVAA -- 7. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 9. Complete and partial Infl -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Null Case -- 3. Variation in successive cyclic A-movement -- 4. Conditions on null Case realization: Complement clauses -- 5. Conditions on null Case realization: Infl ectional specifi ers -- 6. Cyclicity and freezing matters -- 7. Case slipping and the Bracing Condition -- 8. Some syntactic consequences of the NCV thesis -- 9. Syntactic conclusions -- 10. An argument for the Transparency Th esis in the syntax/semantics mapping -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 10. Case-agreement mismatches -- 1. Case and agreement: Th eory and typological predictions -- 2. Warlpiri -- 3. Gujarati -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 11. Local agreement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic properties of subject-verb agreement -- 3. Standard approaches to agreement -- 4. Some comparative aspects of subject-verb agreement -- 5. Th e realization of agreement -- 6. Dependency as a function of Merge -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Author index -- Subject index -- Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.