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structures that only occur in contexts where the PCC bars the usual ones, not otherwise.
Unfocussed pronoun datives in French must be clitics, save when the accusative
is a 1 st /2 nd /reflexive clitic, and so it is for nonagreeing datives in Basque,
ergative and accusative in Basque and Finnish unaccusatives, and so on.
Table 4.1: PCC repairs
Transitive Applicative (IO-O)
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*
Unaccusative Applicative (IO-S)
Basque (dial.) DATagr-ABSagr* ERGagr*-DATAppl
Chinook ABSagr-ABSagr* ERGagr-ABSagr*
Finnish OBLAppl-NOMagr* OBLAppl-ACC*
Transitive (EA-S)
Arizona Tewa bareagr-bareagr* ERGagr-bareagr*
Yurok NOM-NOM* NOM-ACC*
Legend: S unaccusative subject, EA transitive subject, O direct object, IO applicative object.
Note: Yurok 1/2→2/1 combinations are NOM-NOM; see section 5.9.
This is an unusual state of affairs for syntax. Ungrammatical structures do not
usually come with repairs. When wh-movement is blocked, *Who did she see __
and Ilmarinen? 'Who is such that she saw him and Ilmarinen', there is no otherwise
unavailable structure that emerges into grammaticality as repair, *Who did
she see him and Ilmarinen? Only independently available paraphrase can be used,
Who did she see __ along with Ilmarinen? For the PCC, repairs do exist.
Constructions in language after language are dedicated to that which the PCC
bars. It might not be surprising for extrasyntactic domains to behave so.
Morphology has superficial analogues of repairs discussed in chapter 2, like the
English comparative where more takes over just when an affixal –er is
unavailable, quicker/*apter -- more apt/*quick. A principal result of this chapter is
to establish the syntactic character of the PCC and its repair in French, keeping the
mystery The intact. following sections draw on the relatively rich understand of the syntax of
French to establish the properties of the PCC and the PCC repair in it:
– Section 4.2 presents the background on clitics and the relevant aspects of
applicative and prepositional syntax.
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