This article provides evidence from Arabic (namely Modern Standard Arabic and Jordanian Arabic) that ɸ‐Agree with an element which undergoes a phonological deletion at PF, i.e., a pro, results in the occurrence of a ɸ‐inflection of the goal on the relevant probe. This occurrence is imposed by the effects of a suggested interface condition, named as The Agree Identification Condition, which requires a phonologically null goal to be ɸ‐identified through a co‐varying ɸ‐inflection on its probe. Such an analysis directly accounts for the intriguing observation that ɸ‐inflections in Arabic do not occur on heads (e.g., verbs and prepositions) when the latter ɸ‐agree with an overt DP. Additionally, this article shows that the effects of this condition do not arise when the Agree relation occurs between a probe and an unpronounced goal which is a member of a movement chain. When one link of the chain (e.g., the higher copy) is overt, no ɸ‐inflection of the goal would appear on the probe. This suggests that when a probe ɸ‐agrees with a goal which constitutes one link of a movement chain, the Agree relation holds between the probe and the whole chain.

中文翻译：

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ɸ‐同意沉默目标和界面效应理论*

本文提供了来自阿拉伯语（即现代标准阿拉伯语和约旦阿拉伯语）的证据，证明 ɸ‐Agree 与在 PF 处进行语音删除的元素（即 pro）会导致目标在相关目标上发生 ɸ‐ 变形。探测。这种情况是由建议的界面条件的影响造成的，命名为同意身份识别条件，这需要通过其探针上的共变 ɸ 变形来识别语音上无效的目标。这样的分析直接解释了一个有趣的观察结果：当后者 ɸ- 与明显的 DP 一致时，阿拉伯语中的 ɸ- 屈折变化不会出现在中心词（例如动词和介词）上。此外，本文还表明，当探测器与作为运动链成员的未明确目标之间发生同意关系时，不会出现此条件的影响。当链中的一个环节（例如，较高的副本）是公开的时，探针上不会出现目标的 ɸ-变形。这表明，当探测器 ɸ‐ 与构成运动链一个环节的目标达成一致时，探测器与整个链之间就保持一致关系。