Citko, BarbaraKing, Katherine E.2016-03-112016-03-112016-03-112015-12King_washington_0250O_15352.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/35231Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2015-12This thesis provides a new account of mixed gender agreement in Russian, incorporating the joint strengths of several previous accounts. Mixed agreement results when some elements in a sentence agree with the grammatical gender of a hybrid noun, while other elements agree with the semantic gender of the referent. In the present proposal, grammatical gender is a feature on N, and agreement with grammatical gender propagates up from N. D is the locus of reference and introduces the referent-derived φ-features. Via feature sharing, features on D can value not only elements further up in the derivation, as in previous proposals, but also elements downward in the DP, allowing DP-internal modifiers to display semantic agreement. A null blocking morpheme Б prevents feature sharing between the two agreement domains.application/pdfen-USagreement; gender; hybrid nouns; mixed agreement; Russian; syntaxLinguisticslinguisticsThesis