Agreement within DPs: a comparison between Aromanian and Albanian

Agreement within DPs in Aromanian varieties spoken in Southern Albania is asymmetric, in the sense that, while gender and number occur on all elements,only the first one shows the case mark. Adjectives, which are post-nominal, do not present the mark of case. We analyze this distribution in comparison with Albanian varieties. In Aromanian only one form is clearly specialized for the case interpretation, while the socalled nominative and accusative are nothing but forms characterized by definite or indefinite morphology. In addition, morphological exponents manifest a wide syncretism, as in the Albanian varieties. The morpho-syntactic analysis, based on the Phase model, assumes that morphemes are endowed with interpretable content and morphology is part of the syntactic computation.