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Superlatives, partitives and apparent φ-feature mismatch in Spanish Toquero Pérez, Luis Miguel Syntax-morphology Phi-agreement Superlatives Partitives Spanish Adjectival superlatives in Spanish are expressed by a definite determiner and the com-parative morpheme m ́as 'more/-er' modifying the adjective. While gender and numberconcord between the determiner, adjective and noun is generally obligatory, there is asubset of cases where it seems to be disrupted: the determiner surfaces as the so-calledneuter lo, the adjective spells out masculine and there is no overt noun. I argue that thisnon-canonical pattern is the result of a failed Agree dependency between probes on D anda noun underspecified for φ. Failure to value the probe triggers the emergence of defaultsat the point of Vocabulary Insertion: lo and masculine morphology on the adjective. Theanalysis that lo as genderless and numberless receives support from coordination patterns. 2024 Article ; Isogloss ; Vol. 10 Núm. 2 (2024), p. 1-33 open access Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/