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a. me/*se: I am the only person who complains about me.
b. me/se: I am the only person who complains about himself.
(French, Morin 1978: 342f.)
Interpretatively the simplest solution might be for fake indexicals to get their
1 st /2 nd persons features outside the syntax-interpretation computation, at PF, but it
requires long-distance phi-features transmission at PF (Kratzer 2009, Heim 2008).
The PCC demonstrates that fake indexicals are in fact [+person] in syntax, not
only PF, because they license PCC repairs in French (397) (cf. section 4.4).
(397) Il n'y a que moi qui trouve personne
a. pour me leur présenter/vendre.
b. pour me présenter/vendre à eux.
to me.A them.D introduce/sell to them
I am the only one who finds no one to introduce/sell me.A *them.D /
to them. (Othersi do find someone to introduce/sell me/themi to them.)
(French)
The [+person] specification of fake indexicals in (397) only suggests PF phitransmission
is not the right solution. The literature develops ways to interpret
bound 1 st /2 nd person pronouns appropriately, as well as proposals for them to be
eliminated by a syntactic relationship (Schlenker 2005, Maier 2006, Heim 2008).
The fake 3 rd person reading of 1 st /2 nd person pronouns is not available in examples
like (366), repeated below (cf. Heim 2008). In (366) 3 rd person pronouns have
the speaker/addressee among their values, although ordinarily only 1 st /2 nd person
pronouns do so. Sauerland (2008) proposes that 3 rd person pronouns do not have
any person restriction, and derives the distribution of uses from the principle of
Maximize Presuppositions in (398). The principle requires the use of 1 st /2 nd person
pronouns whenever their value meets their lexical presupposition in (362) of referring
to the speaker/addressee. Since in (366), the bound pronouns take on both
speaker and non-speaker values, this presuppositions cannot be met. Then Maximize
Presuppositions allows 3 rd person.
(366) Eachi of usj evaluates herselfi/themselvesi/*ourselvesi/j
(398) Maximize Presuppositions (consequence of): The features that appear on
a pronoun are chosen so as to maximize the presupposition they express,
as long as no presupposition failure is triggered.
(Schlenker 2005; cf. Heim 2001, 2008, Sauerland 2008)
Maximize Presuppositions might be expected to interact in an interesting way
with the Person Case Constraint. It governs the choice between LFs with more or
less specified pronouns according to their presupposition failure. We might expect
the Person Case Constraint to matter for it. It prohibits [+person] pronouns in cer-