This paper offers a contribution to the treatment of agreement phenomena in LFG by providing an analysis of Rumanian nominal agreement, focussing on gender. I take up two issues concerned with gender marking and agreement in Rumanian. The first of these is the apparent mismatch between the number of nominal controller genders (three), and the number of target genders (two): nouns appear to make more gender distinctions than the elements which agree with them. This phenomenon, which is not unique to Rumanian, has engendered a number of analyses and on the face of it is a challenge to approaches to agreement by token identity or co-specification. I show how this can be accommodated straightforwardly in LFG. Second, Rumanian is a language in which syntactic resolution of gender under coordination is limited to inanimate NPs: conjoined inanimates resolve to the feminine plural unless all of them are masculine but mixed sex animates resolve to the masculine (Farkas, 1990, Lumsden, 1992, Corbett, 1991, Farkas and Zec, 1995, Wechsler and Zlatić, 2003, Wechsler, to appear). It is therefore interesting in terms of understanding how syntactic and semantic resolution interact, an issue which arises in various forms in a substantial number of languages. I formulate an approach which combines the set-based approach to syntactic gender resolution of Dalrymple and Kaplan (2000) with a specification of semantic resolution. This paper started out in a very practical fashion, in that I needed to get to grips with the implementation of closed sets as values in the XLE, a grammar engineering platform for LFG (Crouch et al., 2006), and needed a domain. The analysis proposed here is implemented as an XLE grammar fragment, and as usual, the experience of writing a grammar fragment showed that the prob
