Article drop in headlines: failure of CP-level Agree ∗
Andrew Weir, Generals Paper · 2012
Indefinite article-less DPs appear to have particular semantic properties which are not shared by articleful DPs. In particular, article-less DPs appear to be obligatorily wide-scope. Other quantifiers in the ∗I am grateful to Alice Harris, Kyle Johnson, and Ellen Woolford for their comments on this material, as well as to Hamida Demirdache, Liliane Haegeman, and Tom Roeper, and participants in the ECO5 workshop and the UMass third year seminar. All errors are mine.