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

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– Accusatives DPs need clausal Agree/Case licensing.
– Pronouns have a prosodic Σ-deficiency. It is met within full PPs (and focussed
DPs), where they surface as strong, and CPs, where they are clitics.
– Full PPs like CPs are phases, with their own Agree/Case and Σ-licensing.
A DP inside is inaccessible to clausal syntax, including Agree/Case, various
binding phenomena, and applicative relationships like possessor.
– Datives are defective PPDATs. They do not provide Σ-licensing and leave
the DP visible to the clause for the relationships above, including to interfere
in Agree for the PCC, although it cannot otherwise value a phi-probe.
– The PCC repair transforms the defective PPDAT to a full PP, (nearly) identical
to the locative PP, differing from PPDAT only in completeness.
In terms of the present theory phases, a PP with an Agree/Case system in its
functional architecture is a phase, because it Agrees with its DP and Transfers.
Phasehood will bring the opacity and autonomy characteristics of full PPs together
in a way discussed below. The addition of an Agree/Case system to the defective
PPDAT turns it into the full PP phase, opaque and autonomous. It falls under ℜ if
PDAT is a potential but not active Agree/Case locus for (293) (repeated).
(293) ℜ (for Agree/Case): A uninterpretable feature (probe) may enter the
numeration on a potential Agree/Case locus if needed for Case-licensing.
The PCC arises in the transitive vP when [person] Agree between v and the
direct object fails across PPDAT. This has been seen in (312) for vABS, and the outcome
is the starting point of (333). All the elements of the vP are at this point a
single phase built from a single numeration. It includes PDAT and its complement,
because the defective PDAT without a probe is not a phase head. However, it is a
potential Agree/Case locus. Upon crash of the vP phase, ℜ (293) allows the addition
of a phi-probe to this numeration. The sole locus for the addition is PDAT. The
enriched P Agrees with its complement, and it is Transferred with deletion of its
valued uninterpretable features. The remainder of a numeration rebuilds using the
Transferred PP. The interior of the PP is now invisible to the clause and does not
intervene in the Agree of vACC. No PCC arises, and the vP converges.
(333) Derivation of full PP PCC repair in transitives
a. v[π:+,#:,κ:A] … [P[κ:P] pron[π:3,#:PL,κ:(v?)]]DAT … O[π:1,#:PL,κ:]]] →*Transfer, ℜ
b. [P[π/#:,κ:P] pron[π:3,#:PL,κ:]]full →P-Agree/Transfer
c. v[π:,#:,κ:A] … [P[π/#:,κ:P] pron[π:3,#:PL,κ:P]]full … O[π:1,#:PL,κ:]]] →v-Agree
d. v[π:1,#:PL,κ:A] … [P[π/#:,κ:P] pron[π:3,#:PL,κ:]]full … O[π:1,#:PL,κ:A]]] →√Transfer
(Notation: π [person], # [number], κ [Case] (A acc.), + [+person] of DAT)