Rakesh M. Bhatt, University of Tennessee
Chomsky 1995 eliminated the Agr projection from the clause structure of natural language grammars. On his view, SpecTP is where case/EPP is checked by the a subject DP in the overt syntax, and the object checks its features at LF in the [Spec,vP]. In this paper, it is argued that AgrP does exist in the inventory of thos languages that make use of it. I present evidence from the distribution of subjects and objects in Kashmiri to argue for the existence of AgrP, required for nominative case checking. I further argue that the existence of AgrP is also warranted to account for quirky constructions in Icelandic and Hindi, which is accomplished by dissociating case and D-feature licensing.