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(154) a. Jacquesi s'i/*k / luik/*i achète des billets.
Jacquesi achète des billets à LUIi/k.
Jacques SE him.D buys tickets to him
Jacques is buying tickets for him (lui, à lui) / himself (s', à lui).
b. Jacquesi yk/*i pense.
Jacquesi pense à luii/k.
Jacques LOC thinks to him
Jacques thinks about him (y, à lui) / himself (à lui).
(for (b) cf. Zribi-Hertz 2008: 604)
Binding conditions are syntactic or interpretive. Chapter 2.2 shows that morphological
3.ACC clitic deletion does not suspend Condition B (Morin 1977:
371):
(155) L'organisateurk le/∅i/*k/*m luim/*k/*i présentera demain.
the organiser him.A him.D will.introduce tomorrow
Morin (1978: 356f.) observes that the strong pronoun introduced by PCC repair
is not subject to Condition B, unlike an overt or silent clitic: 72
(156) Jeani s' est attaqué à luii, pensant s'attaquer aux autres.
Jean SE is attacked to him, thinking to attack others
(Morin 1978: 357, cf. 1982: 13)
(157) Jacquesi nous/*les a assigné à luii DES L'AEROPORT.
Jacques us/*them.A has assigned to him as.soon.as the airport
For the Binding Theory then, the syntax and interpretation of the strong pronouns
of the repair appears to be like that of other pronouns and unlike that of clitics.
However, the argument is weakened by two possibilities. When the focussed
dative in (154)a is clitic doubled, the reflexive and disjoint reading are differentiated
by the clitic, Jacquesi s'i/luij achète des billets à LUIi/j. The reflexive versus
disjoint readings in the repair à lui in (156) could be analyzed as the spell-out of
corresponding structures with a covert se and a covert lui. Alternatively, Condition
B may be viewed as due to the availability of a dedicated reflexive like se, and so
absent when se is unavailable due to the PCC (Burzio 1989, 1991, Déchaine and
Manfredi 1994, Williams 1997, Kiparsky 2005).
72 A test suggested by B. Spector, p.c., ameliorated by M. Jouitteau, J. Rooryck, E. Schoorlemmer
p.c. As Morin (1978: 358) and M. Jouitteau (p.c.) point out, context is needed: I introduced
him/you to myself (me) is just not the way to say I introduced myself to him/you in French or
English. Beside strong pronouns like lui 'him' exists the suffixed lui-même 'him-self' type. Couquaux
(1975: 62), Blanche-Benveniste (1975: 206-213), less so Blanche-Benveniste et al. (1984:
102), dislike all plain strong pronouns reflexive to the local subject or objects, whether PCC repair
or locative. They antecedes the work that established this use and its difference from même
'self'-forms, Morin (1978), Zribi-Hertz (1980, 1995, 2003, 2008).