Eva Klingvall On non-copula Tough Constructions in Swedish (PDF ...

158head position of aP. In Swedish, the adjective agrees morphologically withthe underlying object only when the object moves across the adjective to thesubject position (otherwise the adjective gets default agreement/agrees withthe expletive):(55) a. Böckernabooks-DEFär lätta att läsa.are easy-PL to read‘The books are easy to read.’b. Detitärislätt att läsa böckerna.easy to read books-DEF‘It’s easy to read the books.’Since the adjective agrees morphologically with the underlying object DPonly when this DP appears in the subject position, i.e. has moved across aP, Itake a to be associated with an EPP feature. When a’s φ-features are checkedagainst the DP, the DP also moves to Spec,aP to satisfy EPP. 13 Crucially,however, the DP does not get case from a, and is therefore still available as agoal for T:13The för-phrase does not intervene, although it appears higher than the DP because it isinactive, having its Case feature checked locally by P.