Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Gianina Iord˘ achioaia & Mihaela Marchis In Support of Long Distance Agree * Abstract In the recent literature the phenomenon of long distance agreement has become the focus of several studies as it seems to violate certain locality conditions which require that agreeing elements in general stand in clause-mate relationships. In particular, it involves a verb agree- ing with a constituent which is located in the verb’s clausal complement and hence poses a challenge for theories that assume a strictly local relationship for agreement. In this paper we present empirical evidence from Greek and Romanian for the reality of long distance agreement. Specifically, we focus on raising constructions in these two languages and we show that they do not involve movement but rather instantiate long distance agreement. We further argue that subjunctives allowing long distance agreement lack both a CP layer and semantic Tense. However, since the embedded verb also bears phi-features, these constructions pose a further problem for assumptions that view the presence of phi-features as evidence for the presence of a C layer. Finally, we raise the question of the common properties that these languages have that lead to the presence of long distance agreement. 1. (Backward) raising and long distance agreement In a recent paper, Polinsky and Potsdam (2007) (P&P) point out that under the Copy and Delete theory of movement, a raising construction such as (1) should be analysed as involving copying of the moved constituent with sub-sequent deletion of one of the two copies. In general, either the higher or the lower copy can be deleted or both could be pronounced (2). This leads to the typology in (3). (1) [ TP Bill [ vP (Bill) seem [ IP Bill to [ vP Bill cut the line]]]] Subject raising (2) a. [higher copy lower copy] anaphora b. [ higher copy lower copy] cataphora c. [higher copy lower copy] resumption * An earlier version of this paper was presented at the GGS meeting in May 2008 in Berlin. We would like to thank Alex Grosu, Masha Polinsky, Eric Potsdam and Winfried Lechner for comments and suggestions. Special thanks to Gereon M¨ uller for helpful discussions of this paper. Local Modelling of Nonlocal Dependencies in Syntax, 55-81 Artemis Alexiadou, Tibor Kiss & Gereon M¨ uller (eds.) LINGUISTISCHE ARBEITEN 547, de Gruyter 2012