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eyond CPs, to appear to the end of the Small Clause. The following example suggests this is on
the right track:
(132) - John is too stupid to do the job
- Why don't they resort to Bill?
- Because they consider Bill stupid himself
(133) They consider [ XP Billi [ X' [ AP stupid [ DP ti himself ] ]]]
The Catalan equivalent of 0 is not well-formed:
(134) ?*Considero en Joan estúpid ell mateix
I-consider the J. stupid he SELF
In fact, Small Clauses are not Null-Subject structures even in NSLs like Catalan, so the
prediction would be that they should not have [-anaphoric] I-subjects. They do not have
[+anaphoric] I-subjects either:
(135) **Considero en Joan estúpid (si) mateix
I-consider the J. stupid (SE) SELF
I leave the issue open.
5. French Stylistic Inversion and Northern Italian Dialects
There is one case of subject inversion that does not easily fit into our theory: French
Stylistic Inversion:
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