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(337) Je (*vous) ferai [edge téléphonerV IlseACC [InfP tV (à Maï / *vous)].
I (*you.D) will.make telephone Ilse (to Maï / *you).
(French, section 4.6)
There is thus a natural way to discriminate between the PCC and the cliticization
problems in (334). The PCC is a clitic-independent failure of the licensing of
[+person] elements. Pure cliticization failure to meet the Σ-deficiency of pronouns
is a PF problem. This view of Σ-deficiency is compatible with different ways to
meet it, including postsyntactic attachment and syntactic attachment to dedicated
Σ-heads of the functional architecture, provided the requirement is not itself visible
to syntax as an uninterpretable feature. Modularity draws the right dividing
line between the PCC and the extra-syntactic problems in (334).
Transitive repairs akin to that of French are found in Spanish, Basque, Georgian,
and probably widely (e.g. Baker 1996: 442 on Mayali). The Western Basque
repair is conspicuous both for underlying identity with that of French and superficial
incarnation in a very different system (Rezac 2009). It was introduced in section
5.2 and is shown again in (338). Dative and absolutive arguments obligatorily
agree, as prefix and suffix respectively, (338)a. In the PCC context (338)b, dative
and 1 st /2 nd person absolutive agreement are incompatible. Then dative agreement
is exceptionally suspended, provided the dative is an indirect object and not a
purely applicative argument like possessor ((249)-(250)). The dative becomes a
full, nonagreeing PP, which does not independently exist in Western Basque, but
does in Eastern Basque (again, for indirect objects only). Absolutive agreement
cannot be suspended under any circumstances, even when dative agreement cannot
be.
(338) a. Miren-ij haurr-akk eramango di-zkik-oj-te / *d-itk-u-zte
Miren-D children-PL.A bring.will R.3pAk.3sDj.3pE / R.3pAk.3pE
b. Miren-ij zuk eramango zak-itk-u-zte / *zak-i-zkik-oj-te
Miren-D you.A bring.will R.2pAk.3pE / *R.2pAk.3sDj.3pE
They will bring the children/*you.A to Miren.D (agreeing dative).
They will bring *the children/√you.A to Miren.D (nonagr. dative).
(Basque, =(248))
These properties of the Western Basque repair echo those of the French one.
The two repairs may be taken as identical. Both turn the defective PPDAT that may
but in (337) it is trapped below the accusative causee. ℜ can now do nothing, even if the problem
with the clitic were repairable by strengthening the dative to a full PP. The resulting PP cannot
be put back inside the already transferred InfP phase, and it cannot remain in its intermediate position,
as Bošković (2002: 136-8) shows for successive-cyclic movement generally (cf. Who has
said (*what) Mary ate (what)?) This entails that even if the ban (334)c on mediopassive se + dative
clitic were to fall under PCC in (i), where proarb blocks T-DAT Agree necessary for DAT licensing
(sections 4.6, 4.7), the DAT is irreparable if the v is a phase.
(i) TNOM [edge proarb (*DATclitic) NOM vmediopassive [… tDAT [V tNOM]]]