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The Object Agreement Restriction
(Springer, 2007)
[EN]This paper deals with the so-called Person Case Constraint (Bonet, 1991), a universal constraint blocking accusative clitics and object agreement morphemes other than third person when a dative is inserted in the same ...
The Derivation of Dative Alternations
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010)
[EN]This paper argues for an updated version of the classical derivational approach to Double Object Constructions (DOCs) and parallel dative construction across languages. We extensively argue that the arguments to postulate ...
PPs without Disguises: Reply to Bruening
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2012-08)
[EN]Bresnan and Nikitina (2009) and Rappaport Hovav and Levin (2008) show that, contrary to standard assumptions, fixed-theme idioms may
appear in to-constructions under certain pragmatic circumstances. Bruening (2010a) ...