Suonano le campane – Es lӓuten die Glocken – ‘Z laütan=da di klokkn. On rightward agreement with a post-verbal subject

In the “old” GB framework the subject-agreement relation was defined structurally and was strongly connected with both nominative case assignment and EPP. In order to explain rightward subject agreement in both a pro-drop language like Italian and a V2 language like German, an adequate syntactic analysis should be able to define: (i) the height within the clausal spine where the agreement relation is realized; (ii) the role of the expletive elements; (iii) the special status of the specifier position. Cimbrian syntax perfectly fits into the scenery. The data we are going to discuss clearly show that this Germanic dialect of Bavarian origin presents both a V2 expletive (‘Z) and the lexical counterpart of expletive pro (i.e.: -da) which imply rightwards agreement at a different structural hight.