Half of an answer: On Agreement with fraction partitives [handout]
Cooper Roberts
October 2024
 

This is the handout from my talk at the 'Puzzles of Agreement: Syntactic, Semantic, and Psycholinguistic Perspectives' workshop, which took place virtually 24-25 October 2024. The core puzzle lies with agreement patterns such as that in (1). I offer a solution involving DP-internal movement. (1) Two-thirds of the apple {is/*are} rotten.
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