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Bulgarian word order and the role of the direct object clitic in LFG
f-structure 2 f-structure 3
The grammaticality of (46) and (47) is predicted, too. The fronted object is functionally
controlled by the DOC, which has to be realized because it is the only constituent that agrees in
person, number, and gender with the fronted object. The DOC with a PRED PRO cannot be chosen
because this would violate UNIQUENESS.
There is one more phenomenon that supports our analysis: EXTERNAL TOPICs. Example
(49) – if uttered with a clear pause between the fronted object and the following sentence – is
grammatical. This kind of a detached constituent fulfills the criterion of a hanging topic (cf. Cinque
1977) or EXTERNAL TOPIC.
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(49) Kolata PAUSE novinata, Todor ja e kupil, ni
carDEF PAUSE newsDEF that Todor DOC3.SG.NEUT is bought us surprised
The car, .. the news that Todor has bought (it) surprised us.
In the account presented here, the grammaticality of (49) follows from the fact that the phrase
structure rule for EXTERNAL TOPICs, see (26) above, is not annotated with an outside-in
functional uncertainty equation. Therefore, no functional control violates the island constraint and
the DOC with a PRED PRO is realized in the embedded clause. To satisfy EXTENDED COHERENCE,
the PRED PRO anaphorically binds the EXTERNAL TOPIC. This is illustrated by the c- and fstructure
given below.
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