Some remarks on agreement within the Minimalist Programme

Agreement has been of great theoretical interest in the Minimalist Programme.
Since Chomsky (2000; 2001), agreement has been largely handled by the operation
Agree, which is the operation responsible for moving feature values from one ele-
ment to another. Despite there being a general consensus that Agree exists within
the minimalist literature, various issues surround how to formulate it, and where it
fits in with the grammar. In this chapter, we overview some of the central debates
surrounding Agree, and provide summaries of how the chapters in this book aim
to answer some of the outstanding questions.