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(81) a. Com que estava cansat, en Joan se n'ha anat
As he-was tired the J. went away
b. Com que estava cansat, se n'ha anat
As he-was tired went away
c. *Com que estava cansat, se n'ha anat en Joan
As he-was tired went away the J.
In 0 no controlled PRO is involved, so the paradigm has to be explained in an alternative
way. I think the facts in all the preceding c. examples, where the postverbal subject cannot co-
refer with the subject of the adjunct clause, can be accounted for as cases of WCO. Since the
post-verbal subject is interpreted as Focus, and Focus triggers WCO effects, as can be seen in 0
(see Chomsky (1981)), the post-verbal subject cannot be co-referent with a pronoun it does not c-
(or m-)command:
(82) *Hisi mother loves JOHNi
In fact, in Catalan Rizzi's paradigm has a correlate in cases where we are not dealing with
a subject, but a dislocated/clitic object: 85
For paradigm 0 if we dislocate the adjunct clause to an
upper clause the acceptability results do not change in either
Catalan or Italian.
85 Italian gerunds seem to be subject oriented, and so this
paradigm cannot probably be instantiated in Italian.
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