Complete and partial Infl

This paper argues that ‘null’ Case appears in person-less elements, including (some) clauses in addition to PRO, while ‘full’ Case shows up in regular nominals. Several data are adduced in this regard, the pertinent distribution being decided when constructing cyclic lexical arrays through an economy metric: Full Case/person features are required only on elements that are not tokenized by the cyclic dynamics themselves. Null Case is a formal consequence of involving the Infl system, under the assumption that full inflection corresponds to fully-fledged person distinctions. Embedded Extended Projection effects arise in terms of the checking of null Case. This makes a prediction if null Case assignment is subject to variation: the reach of A-movement may vary across languages.