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If there is no visible inflectional morphology on a verb, this can mean either of two things. Either there is no such inflectional morphology present, or the inflectional morphemes do not have phonological content (they are ‘zero’ affixes). There is no reason why zero affixes would be disallowed in polysynthetic languages. e. the properties just mentioned above). It turns out that in Mapudungun, NPs cannot be quantificational and are islands for extraction even where there is no overt object agreement on the verb.
The null subject, which I assume is base-generated in a VP-internal position, may stay in its VP-internal position, and the specifier of AGRP remains truly empty. To summarize: a language with weak AGR must have a filled spec,AGRP prior to spell-out, while a language with strong AGR may leave spec,AGRP empty. Before I go on to discuss languages that lack AGR altogether, let us clarify the relationship between spec,AGRP and the VP-internal subject position. In a language like Italian, pro remains in its VP-internal position until spell-out.
In Kinande, on the other hand, the syntactic behaviour of NPs crucially depends on whether or not there is visible agreement: when there is, the NP behaves like a dislocated constituent, but when there is not, the NP behaves like a constituent in an A-position. As Baker concludes, this indicates that Mapudungun is a polysynthetic language with empty object agreement, whereas Kinande does not have empty agreement, but can leave out agreement altogether (like other Bantu languages such as Swahili; cf.