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This paper investigates Partial Agreement (PA, agreement with only one conjunct of a coordinated noun phrase), drawing on data from Russian. Russian is an interesting case because it arguably has two types of coordination: conjunctive.(i 'and') coordination, and comitative (s 'with') coordination. PA is shown to be grammatical only with the first type. Evidence is presented that deriving instances of PA from underlying clausal coordination plus ellipsis/deletion (Aoun, Benmamoun & Sportiche 1994, 1999) is not tenable for Russian. The uniclausal configurational position approach of Munn (1993, 1999), however, makes the correct predictions. Further data which seem to favor the clausal coordination account are resolved by adopting certain assumptions about the structure of group predicates. These assumptions also allow us to explain the unavailability of PA with comitative coordination.