Abstract This paper analyzes the role of the interaction between syntax and semantics in determining the mixed agreement patterns shown by Spanish partitive constructions when they appear as subjects. These patterns follow straightforwardly from the dual nature of nominal features (concord and index features organized in bundles) and from the assumption that Agree is a feature-valuation process in which the unvalued features of a Probe seek matching parallel valued features of a Goal under locality constraints and a maximization principle. After discussing previous approaches and justifying our syntactic analysis, we demonstrate that interaction for agreement between syntax and semantics is articulated via the nominal index features of the head nouns in the partitive structure, so singular and plural agreement, linked to the valuation/non-valuation of the number index feature, correlates with a group/atomic entity vs. a plurality/distributive reading, respectively, the meaning of the verbal predicate also being relevant. The empirical basis for this analysis is provided by a corpus search whose results are carefully described in the paper.

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西班牙语中专有结构的约定和解释：名义特征的双重性质

摘要本文分析了语法和语义之间的相互作用在确定西班牙分词结构作为主题出现的混合协议模式中的作用。这些模式直接来自名义特征（捆绑在一起的一致特征和索引特征）的双重性质，并假设“同意”是一个特征评估过程，在该过程中，Probe的未评估特征在局部条件下寻求匹配目标的平行评估特征约束和最大化原则。在讨论了先前的方法并证明了我们的句法分析之后，我们证明了语法和语义之间的协议交互是通过分词结构中首名词的名义索引特征进行表达的，因此单数和复数协议，链接到数字索引特征的评估/非评估的链接分别与组/原子实体与多个/分布性阅读相关，言语谓词的含义也很重要。语料库搜索为该分析提供了经验基础，其结果在本文中进行了详细描述。