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The conclusion is then that French can display three types of I-subjects:
- empty anaphors [ DP t ]
- empty anaphors + floating SELF: [ DP t lui-même ]
- overt anaphors: [ DP lui/soi(-même) ]
Germanic languages seem to allow only the first two possibilities. We will provide an
account for this difference in the next chapter.
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0 predicts, on the other hand, that NSLs do not allow null anaphors (DP-traces) as I-
subjects, so they will not allow floating emphatic elements, if floating is a result of movement. 45
So, while English allows both 0.a) and b), Catalan and NSLs (which have SELF elements
adjoined to DP's) only allow 0.c), not 0.d):
(64) a. John himself will do it
b. John will do it himself
c. En Joan mateix ho farà / Ho farà en Joan mateix
The J. SELF it-will-do/It-will-do the J. SELF
d. ** En Joan ho farà mateix
The J. it-will-do SELF
Similar facts hold for all the NSLs considered (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese):
45 What happens, then, with floating quantifiers in NSLs?
Within the present theory, I have to assume that they are not
left floating by a moved preverbal subject. This is what we
suggested in Chapter 1. In the next chapter we will argue that
FQs are not left floating by movement in NSLs, but rather
material adjoined to a pro.
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