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a. *l'oiseau nous luii donne à manger.
b. l'oiseau nous donne à manger à luii.
the bird us.A him.D gives to eat to him
It's because his youngling is hungry that the bird gives us (worms) to
him to eat. (PCC)
(Rezac 2010a)
A similar gap degrades 3SG.ACC + LOC l'y, beside good 3PL.ACC LOC les
y (Heggie and Ordóñez 2005: 12f.). It may arise as a morphological garden path
interpreting the 3SG.ACC LOC combination as 3SG.DAT, and again factors such
as subcatgorization for a locative eliminate it. A strong accusative pronoun for the
clitic is strictly impossible, perhaps in contrast with the PCC repair (147).
(191) Maï voulait de nos hérissons / notre hérisson, mais c'était embêtant de
(les/le) lui donner à la boutique. C'est parce que c'était calme au bar qu'
Maï wanted our hedgehog(s), but it was difficult to given him/them to her
at the shop. It's because it was calm at the bar that
on les/??l' y a donnés à Fañch.
*on y a donnés eux/lui à Fañch.
one them/??him.A LOC has given them/him to Fañch
we gave them/??him to Fañch there.
(Rezac 2010a)
The irreparability of morphological clitic cluster gaps follows from modularity
if they are outside syntax, since the PCC repair occurs in syntax. By modularity
syntax cannot see arbitrary gap any more than license, say, pronouns whose
agreement exponent contains /k/ (Baker's 1996: 204f. example).
4.6.4 Mediopassive se + dative clitic
The clitic se in French is systematically multifunctional, as in Romance, Slavic,
and elsewhere. As a 3.ACC reflexive, it is subject to the PCC and its repair along
with 1/2.ACC clitics. In striking contrast stands se as a mediopassive formant. It
too fails to combine with dative clitics, but no repair is available.
The two PCC repairs with the true reflexive 3.ACC se are shown in (192). Reflexive
se may also be 'inherent' or idiomatic with certain verbs (section 4.3). It
behaves then the same for the PCC and its repair, (193) (cf. chapter 6).
(192) a. L'étrange Frédérique séduit les gensi sans se donner à euxi.
The strange Frédérique seduces peoplei without giving herself.A to
themi.
b. ¥ Paul s'yi/*luii est finalement imposé, à sa femmei.
Paul finally imposed himself.A LOCi/*her.Di, on his wifei.
(reflexive se, (a) =(137)a, (b) Couquaux 1975: 40)
(193) a. Elle vit dans un apart avec deux chatsi