Some languages allow extraction of possessors from only a subset of nominals. I show that a juxtaposition of two proposals about Case and Agree (made by Rackowski and Richards (2005) and Bobaljik (2008)) correctly predicts these crosslinguistic restrictions on possessor extraction.

syntax, case, agreement, Ā-extraction
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2018
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