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DIRECT OBJECT CLITIC DOUBLING 135b. Pjoii/ti (* ton/Jo) ides? MGrkwho/what-ACC him/it-CL saw-2SG'Whom/what did you see?'Direct object DPs in Albanian are obligatorily clitic doubled in constructionswith + H'/f-subjects, as well as in yes-no questions, as shown in (18) and (19),respectively. Similar facts are reported for Greek by Agouraki (1993), who notesthat in questions, either yes-no or wh-questions, a doubling clitic is stronglypreferred. ' These facts are also predicted under my hypothesis that clitic doublingexempts direct object DPs from focus domains (that is, from phrases thatare marked [+Focus]).(18) a. Kush *(e) pa femije-n?b. Pjos (to) ide to pedi?who it-CL saw the child'Who has seen the child?'(19) a. (A) *(e) pe Jan-in?[+Q] : " him-CL saw Jan. theb. (Ton) ides tonJani?him-CL saw the Jani"Have you seen John?'(Agouraki 1993.170)AlbMGrkAlbMGrkIn (20a) and (20b) the whole VP is contrastively focused. Since the direct objecthere is part of the focus domain (i.e., is marked [+Focus]), it cannot bedoubled. 21(20) a. An-a nuk (*i) zjeu fasule-t, Albthe Ann not them-CL cooked the beans,par(*i) hengri fiq-te.but them-CL ate the figsb. I Ana den (*ta) niajirepse tafasolia, MGrkthe Ann not them-CL cooked the beans,ala (*ta) efaje e la sika.but them-CL ate the figs'Anna didn't [cook the beans]p; she [ate the figs] p.'Likewise, direct object DPs in out-of-the-blue sentences may not be doubled, asthe examples in (21) show.'"(21) What happened here?a. Ben-i (*e) kathyer terinometr-in/nje pjate.Ben. the it-CL has broken thermometer. the/a plate'[Ben has broken the thermometer/a plate] p'Alb