7.9.2001 page 159 13 Predicative Case Agreement with Quantifier Phrases in Polish Adam Przepiórkowski Polish Academy of Sciences Contents 1 Some background ................................... 160 2 Case agreement and the specifier-head co-indexation .............. 161 2.1 QP = Q + NP specifier ............................. 161 2.2 Q and its NP specifier are co-indexed .................... 162 2.3 Co-indexing extends the domain of agreement .............. 163 3 Formalization in HPSG ............................... 164 4 Some (im)possible alternatives ........................... 165 4.1 Genitive of predication ............................ 166 4.2 QPs as QP/NP-ambiguous .......................... 166 4.3 QPs as bi-headed ............................... 166 5 Conclusion ....................................... 167 In Polish, as in other languages, predicative Adjective Phrases (APs) usually agree in case with the NP/DP (henceforth: NP) they are predicated of, as in (1)–(3). 1 (1) Janek John jest is mily. nice ‘John is nice.’ (2) Pami˛ etam I remember go him milego. nice ‘I remember him as nice.’ (3) [Kilka a few drzew] trees bylo was wyrwane torn z from ziemi. earth ‘A few trees were uprooted.’ In (1), the primary predicative AP agrees with the nominative NP Janek, in (2), the secondary predicative AP agrees with the accusative NP go, and in (3), the primary predicative AP agrees with the accusative Quantifier Phrase (QP) kilka drzew. What is unexpected and puzzling for most theories of case and predication, though, is the possibility of the predicative AP agreeing with the genitive NP within the accusative QP, as in (4), to be compared with (3). 1 Another possibility is for the predicative AP or NP to occur in the instrumental, so-called ‘instrumental of pred- ication’. See Przepiórkowski 2000a on case and predication in Polish in general, and on the distribution of these two ways of case marking of a predicative AP or NP in particular. 159