On the unifiability of repairs for the Person Case Constraint: French, Basque, Georgian and Chinook
The Person Case Constraint blocks 1st/2nd person agreement in the presence of an applicative dative. Unlike other sources of ungrammaticality, it often has repairs: constructions that exist only to fix it and not otherwise. Across the four languages considered here, the repairs are apparently hetero...
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| Published in | Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo." Vol. 43; no. 1-2 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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UPV/EHU Press
01.04.2009
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| Summary: | The Person Case Constraint blocks 1st/2nd person agreement in the presence of an applicative dative. Unlike other sources of ungrammaticality, it often has repairs: constructions that exist only to fix it and not otherwise. Across the four languages considered here, the repairs are apparently heterogeneous, 'constructional': clitic-to-strong dative, agreeing-to-nonagreeing dative, pronoun-to-"pronoun's self" object, absolutive-to-ergative subject. Yet there are profound and far-reaching commonalities across them, hinting at a single mechanism of strengthening by added Case that underlies them all. |
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| ISSN: | 0582-6152 2444-2992 |
| DOI: | 10.1387/asju.1756 |