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- FQs, even if generated in A-position can/must move to some higher position (which
accounts for their freer distribution).
- emphatic strong pronouns, even if not in A-position, are subject to Binding Theory, and
therefore abide by the generalization about the [±anaphoric] status of I-subjects, even if they are
not I-subjects themselves.
The problem with emphatic (pseudo-)I-subjects is similar to the problem of pronominal
clitic-doubling in Catalan or Spanish:
(90) El veig a ell
Him-I-see to him
'I see HIM'
Clitic doubling is also at the basis of Rigau's claim that strong pronouns are not in A-
positions. Clitic doubling pronouns, like emphatic (pseudo-)I-subjects, can cooccur with a FQ: 87
Context: I hand the new school books to the parents of the small children, but...
(91) els grans, els dono a tots el llibre a ells (mateixos)
the older, them-hand-I to all the book to them (SELFs)
'the older ones, I hand the book to them all personally'.
In both 0 and 0 the (emphatic) strong pronouns would be occupying a -θ-position, thus
leaving the object/I-subject position free for the FQ (independently of whether the FQ then
moves to some higher position).
So we seem to draw back to the traditional assumption, which we crucially challenged
before, that emphatic anaphors and pronominals are not in an A-position, without giving up the
crucial idea that these elements are subject to Binding Theory. In fact, both clitic doubling strong
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87 Speakers not readily accepting 0 do not accept 0 either.