Adjectival agreement in the Arabic noun phrase

This paper discusses the properties of adjectival agreement in noun phrases in Standard Arabic. Arabic has a particular construction, in which an adjective has a subject internal to the adjective phrase. The agreement phenomena in this construction show that we must distinguish two separate agreement operations in the constructions under consideration, rather than just one. In this way, we obtain an analysis for adjective agreement that accounts for the presence of the definite determiner on Arabic modifying adjectives. Furthermore, it turns out that modifying adjectives have a structure that is very similar to that of relative clauses.