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- it predicts a contrast in degree of attachment in enclisis vs. proclisis which is the
opposite of what independent morpho-phonological evidence suggests.
- it implicitly assumes that a head does not govern its specifier, a problematic assumption
for standard accounts of Binding Domain as Governing Category, unless we generalize X o -
adjunction-to-Y' to all the parallel cases.
- it crucially relies on the notion of CFC in a way that is not trivially adaptable to present-
day assumptions on clause structure.
move.
- it represents V+enclitic as not forming a constituent, thus predicting that V-cl cannot
- Portuguese is a potential counter-example.
- control cannot be easily reduced to BT.
Perhaps it is not advisable to simply dismantle a proposal with such a basic appeal and
perspicuous insights as Kayne's, on the basis of technical problems: these problems might
disappear as a deeper understanding of the facts develops. However, at least one of the problems,
namely the pervasive consequences of taking the proposal of X o -adjunction-to-Y' seriously,
which has dramatic effects on cases like 0 and 0, does not seem to be a side-problem and casts
serious doubts on the first glance plausibility of the theory.
The alternative account we will present is, admittedly, less ambitious, for it gives up
some of the promising achievements in Kayne's theory, such as reducing control to BT.
2. The AGR-identifier of Infinitives
In the preceding chapter, we adopted a parameter that determines which is the AGR-
identifier for a (finite) clause, repeated here as 0:
(26) AGR o /Spec of AGR is the AGR-identifier of AGR.
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