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The interaction of datives with the clausal Agree/Case system thus remains
unclear, beyond their participation in the PCC despite failing to control agreement.
The other evidence seen here indicates a contrast between full phasal PPs and
PPDAT. Full PPs and CPs are phases that satisfy the Case-deficiency of all DPs,
and the Σ-deficiency of pronouns, whether the latter is viewed as morphophonological
or syntactic. PPDAT is a nonphasal shell. It lets the DP within relate to the
clause, including partially to the Agree/Case system for the PCC, although not as a
(full) agreement controller. It does not provide Σ-licensing, leaving the CP to take
care of it. This is the Cliticization Requirement. The PCC repair turns PPDAT into a
full PP, the locative PPLOC or nearly so. The next chapter starts from these conclusions
to develop the mechanism by which the PCC repair can turn a nonphase into
a phase in response to the PCC and it alone.
4.8 Appendix A: Exceptional Case Marking
It is not at present possible to decide whether indirect object dative clitics in
French come from the prepositional construction of (132), where nonclitics are
found, or from the applicative construction, since both are available to the indirect
objects of languages like English. In one configuration, (183)a, a dative clitic
fairly clearly comes from a position below a higher accusative. The adjective selects
a dative argument, embeds in a small clause with a subject, and the small
clause under Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) falls into the Case and cliticization
domain of the matrix verb. (183)a contrasts closely with the causatives of transitives,
(183)b, where the dative agent-causee c-commands the lower direct object
accusative. The relevance of ECM to the PCC is pointed out by Postal (1983,
1984): in the French variety he studies, ECM creates clitic clusters immune to the
PCC.
(225) a. ECM: (clACC clDAT) v believe [SC ACC [AP ADJ DAT]]
b. Trans. caus.: (clACC clDAT) v make [?P DAT [VP V.INF ACC]]
The adjectives involved are of the type (in)fidèle '(un)faithful', sympathique
'sympathetic', antipathique 'antipathetic, unpleasant', reconnaissant 'grateful', as in
[une fille [reconnaissant à Maï]] 'a girl grateful to Maï'. They may be embedded
under raising and ECM. Then the dative like any other must cliticize if an unfocussed
pronoun, (226) (Kayne 1975: 71, 75, 2.12-4, 2.16, 4.6). It seems to have
regular dative clitic properties, including floating quantifier licensing in (133).
(226) Jean est infidèle à Marie / *à toi
Jean t' est infidèle
Jean you.D is unpleasant to Marie / to you
(cf. Kayne 1975: 172, 305f.)