naa a22 4500 510742440 CHVBK 20180411083032.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11525-013-9218-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11525-013-9218-4 Subset controllers in agreement relations [Elektronische Daten] [Peter Ackema, Ad Neeleman] Agreement relations are interpreted asymmetrically, in that phi-features restrict the interpretation of the controller, but not the target. In this paper we explore whether this semantic asymmetry corresponds to a syntactic asymmetry. We will argue that it does not: phi-features are generated independently on target and controller. The evidence comes from cases of what we term ‘subset control', in which the controller has fewer features than the target. We will argue that there are genuine cases of subset control that cannot be explained away, neither by assuming the controller contains non-realised features, nor by assuming that the underspecified category is not the actual controller, the latter being a fully specified null element. Our main evidence comes from Spanish ‘unagreement'. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Agreement nationallicence Spanish nationallicence Unagreement nationallicence Phi-features nationallicence Ackema Peter Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street, EH8 9AD, Edinburgh, UK aut Neeleman Ad Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL Linguistics, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 1PF, London, UK aut Morphology Springer Netherlands 23/2(2013-05-01), 291-323 1871-5621 23:2<291 2013 23 11525 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-013-9218-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-013-9218-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ackema Peter Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street, EH8 9AD, Edinburgh, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Neeleman Ad Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL Linguistics, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 1PF, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Morphology Springer Netherlands 23/2(2013-05-01), 291-323 1871-5621 23:2<291 2013 23 11525 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer