The grammatical encoding of gender provides a useful test-case for understanding the interactions of lexical semantics, narrow syntax, and its interfaces (syntax-semantics and syntax-phonology). We present the results of two rating studies testing whether the gender interpretation associated with nominal roots (lexical semantics) maps onto gender as a syntactic feature and its morphological expression. In Experiment 1, we compared the repair of gender mismatches for elided nominal predicates with elided pronouns (sloppy readings). We found that ellipsis makes a distinction between a repair of a gender feature valued by agree in syntax (partial repair; ellipsis of NPs) and a repair due to gender feature transmission in morphology (total repair; ellipsis of bound pronouns). In Experiment 2, we tested gender in NP arguments, directly addressing the distinction between gender interpretation stemming from lexical semantics and gender as a syntactic feature encoded by agree. Results provide evidence for the autonomy of syntactic features, and for a dissociation of post-syntactic feature transmission and morphological realization of agree.