Sung-Hyuk Park. 2000. A Note on Multiple Matching/Agreement. Studies in Modern Grammar 21, 183-199. In order to account for Case agreement between T and the participle (PRT), or between v* and PRT in languages like Icelandic, Chomsky (1999) makes use of multiple matching/agreement, assuming that deleted features are still visible to narrow-syntactic operations up until the strong phase level CP or v*P. The purpose of this squib is to show that Chomsky`s assumption that deleted features remain visible until the strong phase level gives rise to a conceptual problem, which might undermine the system of multiple matching/agreement. In order to overcome the problem, we suggest two alternatives, each with its own shortcomings, however. One is to assume that deleted features are literally deleted, that is, they are invisible to the operations of narrow syntax. The other is to assume that all deletion operations take place at once at the strong phase, at which point the phase is transmitted to the phonological component. Since the main purpose of this squib is simply to show that Chomsky`s (1999) assumption regarding the Case checking of PRT may bring about a subtle conceptual problem, however, the squib will not attempt to make a decision between these alternatives.

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