Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of - UMR 7023 - CNRS
Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of - UMR 7023 - CNRS
Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of - UMR 7023 - CNRS
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a. aux agriculteurs de vos régions à des prix ridicules.<br />
from <strong>the</strong> farmers <strong>of</strong> your districts at ridiculous prices.<br />
b. *à vous à des prix ridicules<br />
from you at ridiculous prices.<br />
c. % à VOUS à des prix ridicules (, alors qu'on le revend aux<br />
DISTRIBUTEURS à pr<strong>of</strong>its.)<br />
% from YOU for ridiculous prices (while one sells it to<br />
REDISTRIBUTORS at pr<strong>of</strong>it).<br />
(mediopassive + dative)<br />
(199) Depuis le début de la polémique, les paysansi se plaignent<br />
Since <strong>the</strong> start <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> polemic, farmers complain<br />
a. qu'on leuri achète le lait à des prix ridicules.<br />
that one buys milk <strong>the</strong>m.Di (=from <strong>the</strong>m) at ridiculous prices.<br />
(transitive + dative)<br />
b. que les médias s'attaquent à euxi tous les jours.<br />
that <strong>the</strong> media attack + se to <strong>the</strong>mi every day.<br />
(inherent reflexive + dative)<br />
c. que personne ne s'associe à euxi dans les manifestations.<br />
that no one associates himself to <strong>the</strong>mi in manifestations.<br />
(true reflexive + dative)<br />
d. que les médias {s'intéressent à euxi} / {parlent d'euxi} quasiment tous<br />
les jours.<br />
that <strong>the</strong> media interest <strong>the</strong>mselves to (=in) <strong>the</strong>mi / speak <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>mi<br />
nearly every day.<br />
(locative + dative/genitive)<br />
e. ?*que le lait s'achète à euxi à des prix ridicules.<br />
that one buys milk to (=from) <strong>the</strong>mi at ridiculous prices. (Ok if<br />
alternatives to '<strong>the</strong>m' available, e.g. redistributors who get better prices.).<br />
(mediopassive + dative)<br />
The irreparability <strong>of</strong> mediopassive se + dative clitic clusters indicates that <strong>the</strong><br />
PCC repair is not simply <strong>the</strong> response to <strong>the</strong> unavailability <strong>of</strong> a clitic. Fur<strong>the</strong>r consequences<br />
depend on underst<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>the</strong> ban on mediopassive se + dative clitic <strong>and</strong><br />
its contrast with reflexives. Despite superficial identity, reflexive <strong>and</strong> mediopassive<br />
se structures differ pr<strong>of</strong>oundly, along <strong>the</strong> lines <strong>of</strong> (200) (Pollock 1998,<br />
D'Aless<strong>and</strong>ro 2003, Reinhart <strong>and</strong> Siloni 2005, Zribi-Hertz 2009, Medová 2009).<br />
(200) a. Reflex.: EANOM TNOM [vP tEA vACC (… DAT …) [ V SEACC …<br />
b. Med-pas.: ONOM TNOM [vP pro/SE v (… DAT …) [ V tO …<br />
In <strong>the</strong> reflexive (200)a, <strong>the</strong> nominative is agreed to come from [Spec, vP]<br />
(through such diagnostics as <strong>the</strong> impossibility <strong>of</strong> genitive clitic subextraction). The<br />
nature <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> object is less clear. For certain purposes such as inversion constructions,<br />
se-reflexives behave as unergatives ra<strong>the</strong>r than transitives (Medová 2009:<br />
4.3-4). So however do transitives with idiomatic objects (Kayne 1979). These di-
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