Phi-features and the Modular Architecture of - UMR 7023 - CNRS

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Your reply to Jean-Jacques / *us was perfect.
b. [Sa fidélité à ses parents / *eux] est bien connue.
His devotion to his parents / *them is well known.
(Kayne 1975: 185)
Adjectival and participial modifiers also do not have a cliticization site, save
for past participles in Belgian French which permits une lettre [nous addressée] 'a
letter us.D addressed' (Grevisse and Goosse 2008: 662b4°). Adjectives like redevable
'indebted', destiné 'meant for', require an overt dative in the appropriate
meaning, but an unfocussed pronoun cannot be realized, (203), (204).
(203) a. Pour que les contraventions de Pauline sautent, il lui faudrait au moins
un policier redevable à sa famille / *à elle.
In order to get rid of Pauline's violations, she will need at least one policeman
grateful to her family / *to her.
b. Pour que nos contraventions sautent, il nous faudrait au moins un policier
redevabale à notre équipe / *à nous.
In order to get rid of our violations, we will need at least one policeman
grateful to our team / *to us.
(204) [L'aide destinée à vous tous / à VOUS / *à vous / *pour vous] est prête.
the help intended to you all to YOU to you for you is ready
(for à vous tous, see on modifiers below)
DPs and AP modifiers are strong islands without a cliticization site. That leaves
unfocussed pronoun datives without the possibility of cliticization, like the PCC,
yet it does not license unfocussed strong pronouns.
There are exceptions. Among the speakers surveyed here, all find the sharp ungrammaticality
indicated in (203), but most judge 3 rd person unfocussed dative
strong pronouns in reduced relatives like (205)a unproblematic. Postal (1990: 4.5)
likewise finds this to be the sole context where strong pronoun datives are fine
provided they are not applicative, (205)b. 89 Also good are inanimates, (205)c, despite
the general oddity of strong animate pronouns (Cardinaletti and Starke 1999,
Zribi-Hertz 2000). 1 st /2 nd person pronouns remain to be properly investigated, but
to the extent they have been, they are out even in reduced relatives, (204).
(205) a. Quand Ricardoi avait été élu directeur,
When Ricardoi had been elected director,
un ami [très attaché à luii] était venu nous parler.
a friend [attached to him] came to speak to us.
b. la voiture achetée à elle
the car bought from her / *for her
89 Postal does not control for focus here, but it remains that reduced relatives pattern with the
PCC repair against other non-PCC contexts, focus aside. His examples use only 3 rd person.