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804RAJESH BHATTassociate is licensed independently of T 0 . 14 If this is the case then theGoals that trigger agreement in (73) are also inactive and we have aninstance of inactive Goals triggering Agree in English also.REFERENCESAissen, Judith L. and David M. Perlmutter. 1983. ‘Clause Reduction in Spanish’, inD. M. Perlmutter (ed.), Studies in Relational Grammar, Vol. 1, University ofChicago Press, Chicago, pp. 360–404. [originally published in 1976.]Belletti, Adriana. 1988. ‘The Case of Unaccusatives’, Linguistic Inquiry 19, 1–34.Benmamoun, Elabbas. 1992. ‘Structural Conditions on Agreement’, in K. Broderick(ed.), Proceedings of NELS 22, GLSA, Amherst, MA, pp. 17–32.Bickel, Balthasar and Yogendra P. Yadava. 2000. ‘A Fresh Look at GrammaticalRelations in Indo-Aryan’, Lingua 110, 343–373.Bobaljik, Jonathan David. 1995. Morphosyntax: The Syntax of Verbal Inflection,Ph.D. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Distributedby MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.Boeckx, Cedric. 2003. ‘Intricacies of Icelandic Agreement’, ms., University ofMaryland/Harvard University.Butt, Miriam. 1993. ‘Hindi/Urdu Infinitives as NPs’, in Y. Kachru (ed.), South AsianLanguage Review: Special Issue on Studies in Hindi-Urdu, 3, 51–72.Butt, Miriam. 1995. The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu, Dissertations inLinguistics, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA. Doctoral thesis at StanfordUniversity, 1994.14 In addition if we make the plausible assumption that unlike the English there,the French expletive il has /-features, we have a straightforward account for why theassociate of the expletive does not trigger agreement in French.i.(from Belletti (1988))a. Trois filles sont arrive´es.three girls are arrived.FPl‘Three girls arrived.b. Il est arrive´ trois filles.EXPL is arrived three Girls‘There arrived three girls.’In (i.a), the expletive il enters into Agree with T 0 , values its own case features, andvalues the unvalued agreement features of T 0 . The case of trois filles ‘three girls’ islicensed by the unaccusative verb. This account, which is quite close to the Belletti(1988) and Lasnik (1999), is superior to the Chomsky (2001) account, where the caseof trois filles ‘three girls’ is licensed via Agree by T 0 . Therefore T 0 must agree withtrois filles ‘three girls’. Since it actually does not, Chomsky (2001) needs to stipulatethat the valued agreement features of T 0 (showing agreement with the associate) areoverridden by the features of il.