Abstract Agreement and Clausal Arguments

CP arguments have been argued to be Caseless and ϕ– featureless. Empirical evidence mainly drawn from Spanish suggests that this claim should be reconsidered. In this paper, I claim that clausal arguments and nominalized clauses have a ϕ content and Case specification. These types of arguments are therefore able to relate by agreement with a functional category. The facts examined support minimalist guidelines by claiming that the concrete realization of the ϕ and Case content of a syntactic object is irrelevant for computational mechanisms to take place.