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(40) a. *Each other's accusation triggered many problems for them
b. PRO to accuse Nixon triggered many problems for them
(41) Votar en Joan, em sembla que ni ell mateix
To-vote-for the J. me-seems that not-even he SELF
s'imagina que t'ho proposessis
guesses that you-intended
'Vote for Joan, I think not even he himself could guess you intended to'
(42) *Que votis en Joan, em sembla que ni
That you-vote-SUBJ the J. me-seems that not-even
ell mateix s'imagina que t'ho proposis
he SELF guesses that you-intend
'Vote for Joan, I think not even he himself could guess you intend to'
In 0 the dislocated subjunctive que votis en Joan is subject to the obviation constraint
w.r.t. the subject of the embedded clause (this is the reason for the ill-formedness of the
structure), in spite of the fact that, were it not for obviation, the example would be fine and it
would involve crucial non-c-commanding of en Joan by ell mateix 'he himself'.
I will leave the question here, only suggesting that control and obviation are closely
related phenomena which could constitute an autonomous module involving some sort of
obligatory coindexation/anti-coindexation without recourse to c-command.
Since we assume that control is outside Binding Theory, the traditional assumption that
PRO is an element having to escape BT seems reasonable.
Now let us try to account for Kayne's (1991) generalization that enclisis is a necessary
(perhaps sufficient) condition for having 'if'-infinitives. Let us begin with languages not having
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