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The distribution of Spanish focused and depreciative bare plurals presents a problem for Standard syntactic accounts within the Government & Binding paradigm, either based on the notion of government or on incorporation mechanisms. It is argued that a minimalist account is superior to the previous ones because the licensing of focused and depreciative bare plurals can be integrated in the general theory of feature movement. This Operation takes place in constituent structures allowing multiple specifiers and relating the focus feature with other features of the D and the C Systems. Evidence is provided of the checking of a focus feature in these two domains, a fact that supports the Symmetrie pattern of licensing of focused (and depreciative) bare plurals in matrix and embedded contexts.

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