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- Title
The Person Case Constraint.
- Authors
Pancheva, Roumyana; Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa
- Abstract
We propose a theory of the person restrictions in clitic double object constructions, a phenomenon known as the Person Case Constraint (PCC). In our proposal, the PCC is concerned with the encoding of perspective, and is, as such, a syntax-semantics interface phenomenon. A phase-based Person-Constraint, triggered by an interpretable person feature on the Applicative head, is responsible for the grammatical marking of the indirect object as a point-of-view center. Variation in the values of the interpretable person feature are shown to have counterparts in logophoric roles. The Person-Constraint has several clauses, which are subject to parametric variation, and which account for the range of cross-linguistic variation in PCC effects. The clauses of the P-Constraint are regulated by a theory of markedness, making predictions about how widely attested and robust the different types of PCC grammars are.
- Subjects
CONSTRAINTS (Linguistics); SEMANTICS; LEXICOLOGY; LINGUISTICS; MARKEDNESS (Linguistics)
- Publication
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2018, Vol 36, Issue 4, p1291
- ISSN
0167-806X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11049-017-9395-7