Hybrid Agreement in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian

Abstract

This paper examines the hybrid agreement patterns in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS). Building on the previous work of the analysis demonstrates that by adopting a default unification mechanism and extending the existing type hierarchy, a feasible analysis of BCS hybrid agreement can be accomplished. The paper also explores a functor analysis, which delivers successful results with minor changes to the type hierarchy and lexical entries. The findings also refute the claim that the phenomenon of hybrid agreement in BCS gives evidence for the DP-hypothesis, thereby rendering the argument unable to favour either the NP or the DP hypothesis.