'Pluringulars', pronouns and quirky agreement

Unlike full noun phrases, weak and null pronouns typically cannot procrasti nate: they cannot move at LF. Taking this as its starting point, this paper addresses the behaviour of English weak and null pronouns in three agreeme nt domains: agreement attraction, agreement with committee-type noun phrase s (here dubbed "pluringulars" when they trigger plural finite verb agreemen t), and agreement in there sentences. Agreement attraction is analysed in t erms of LF-movement, which, in the light of the fact that they cannot LF-mo ve, immediately accounts for the fact that weak pronouns cannot trigger att raction. "Pluringulars" are argued to be complex noun phrases headed by a n ull plural pronoun, which explains their failure to trigger attraction and a number of other properties of "pluringulars" which otherwise stand out as quirks, including the fact that they cannot be the associate of there in p lural-agreeing there sentences. Agreement attraction also fails in there se ntences, which is shown to supply an argument against expletive replacement .