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stead in Table 5.3. The dative intervener turns into a full PP, or the [+person] DP
is strengthened. This and the following sections take them up in turn.
Table 5.3: PCC repairs in transitives
Person-Case Constraint
(α* banned iff [+person])
Repair
(bold element changes)
French DATclitic-ACCclitic* ACC*-DATPP/LOCclitic
(? DATSE(INH)-ACCclitic* DATSE(INH)-ACCstrong*)
West. Basque DATagr-ABSagr* ABS-DATPP
Georgian DATagr-ABS/ACCagr* ABS/ACC-DATPP
DATagr-ABS/ACCagr* DATagr-[agr's self].ABS/ACC3SG*
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The effect of turning a dative intervener into a full PP is to remove it from the
clausal Agree/Case system and thus the PCC. Full PPs do not participate in the
Agree/Case system of the clause and provide their DP with one of its own. More
generally, they isolate their DP from various clausal relationships, including applicative
relationships, anaphora binding, and cliticization in French (sections 4.5,
4.7). They are complete, opaque domains: phases. The repair of defective dative
PPs to full PPs can be analyzed as the activation of the potential Agree/Case system
of a defective P, turning it into a phase, like the repair of unaccusatives.
The French repair (331) has been studied in chapter 4. The PCC in French involves
an applicative dative and a [+person] accusative pronoun, which must independently
be a clitic. The repair takes a defective dative PPDAT and turns it into
a full PP, virtually a locative PP. It is invisible to the PCC, like other full PPs including
locatives. It also acquires other properties that distinguish full PPs from
PPDAT. One is the capacity to host full pronouns, suspending the obligatory cliticization
of dative pronouns; this is the ostensible sign of the repair. Another is the
inability to serve in applicative relations such as the possessor, (332), because they
require an (Agree-like) relationship between the DP within and the clause. Cliticization
of the accusative cannot be suspended in any of these cases.
(331) a. Elle le/*nousi leurk a présenté. →repair
she him/us.A them.D has introduced
b. Elle nousi a présenté à euxk.
c. *Elle leurk a présenté nousi.
(PCC and repair, French, section 4.3)
(332) Elle le/*nous leur a jetté(s) dans les bras
she him/us them.D has thrown into the arms
She threw him/*us into their arms.
(irreparable PCC, French, section 4.5)
The following conclusions about French were reached in chapter 4: