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When the theme of falloir is a 1 st /2 nd person accusative clitic, the PCC prevents
the dative experiencer from being a clitic, (184). As for other applicative datives,
there is no repair. For many speakers, a 1/2.ACC clitic is also incompatible
with an à-phrase experiencer, (185). It has been suggested that a covert dative clitic
doubles the à-phrase and creates the PCC (Anagnostopoulou 2005: 231 note 2).
This is disproved by the failure of floating quantifiers to be licensed, (186).
Rather, the à-phrase itself counts for the PCC. 82
(184) ¥ a. *Il vous (lui/y) faut (à lui)
it you.A him.D/LOC needs to him
b. % Il faut cela à LUI plus impérativement qu'à elle.
it needs this to him more imperatively than to her
(Postal 1990: 172; (b) given there as *, but ok for some)
(185) (Cette fille,) il la/*te lui faut.
(Cette fille,) il la/*te faut à mon ami.
this girl it her/you.A him.D needs to my friends
This girl, my friend/he needs her/*you.
(cf. Kayne 1975: 241 note 47)
(186) Il la/*te leuri a (tousi) fallu.
Il la/*te a (*tousi) fallu aux enfantsi.
it her/you.A them.D has all needed to.the children
They all / *all the children needed her.
4.5.6 Overview
The behaviour of dative à-phrases bears out the theory of the PCC in (122) applied
to the applicative-prepositional distinction (132). Indirect objects of ditransitives
can or must be in the prepositional construction below the direct object as àphrases,
where they do not participate in the PCC. As clitics, they pass through an
A-position between v and the direct object, and here they do create the PCC. Applicative
datives do not have recourse to the prepositional construction. They are
between v and the direct object and always participate in the PCC. Causees are
expected to show this pattern most clearly, and do, because their position is clear.
All datives are defective PPs. The PCC repair strengthens them to full PPs in
the prepositional construction, similar or identical to locatives. These have the capacity
to host unfocussed pronouns, are immune to the PCC, but also bar their DP
from participating in various clausal relationships. Among them are applicative relations
like causee or possessor, so the repair is unavailable to them. Section 4.7
explores further the nature of PPs and the effect of the repair.
82 Some do allow à-phrases with 1/2.ACC clitics, although not à + strong pronoun under focus or
the PCC repair: see Postal (1990: 172) in (184), vs. Kayne (1975: 241 note 47). Both grammars
occur among the speakers surveyed here. Similar variation for the PCC in Basque unaccusatives
reflects high vs. low datives (Rezac 2008c, forthc, Albizu 2009b).