This paper discusses new data from two southern Italian dialects, northern Calabrese and southern Calabrese, which contrast with standard Italian in exhibiting the flexible agreement patterns with definite plural subjects characteristic of the unagreement
phenomenon of Spanish and Modern Greek. We highlight a problem that this raises for
recent proposals connecting the availability of unagreement to the obligatory presence of a
definite article in adnominal pronoun constructions like “we children”. Adopting the
distributed morphology framework, we suggest that the contrast between standard Italian
and the southern varieties may be due to variation in the feature specification of the
vocabulary items realising the D head.Leverhume Trus
