Non-verbal agreement targets

Cross-linguistic work on agreement indicates that, beyond the verb, almost any part of speech can index the morphosyntactic features of an argument in the wider clausal domain providing that particular diachronic and structural prerequisites are met. While auxiliary verbs, converbs and predicative adjectives are well document as agreement targets in the descriptive and theoretical literature, a number of other less frequently encountered target types are also attested across the world’s languages, including:

Bond, Oliver, Marina Chumakina & Steven Kaye. 2023. ‘Unusual agreement targets in unexpected domains’, in Marina Chumakina, Oliver Bond & Steven Kaye (eds), Agreement beyond the verb. Unusual targets, unexpected domains, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1–47.