2009/04/16 by Milan Rezac, Milan Řezáč
Arts and Humanities · Business, Management and Accounting · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems #Law, logistics, and international trade #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
paper · pdf · doi:10.1387/asju.1756
openalex publication_date 2009/04/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
The Person Case Constraint blocks 1st/2nd person agreement in the presence of an applicative dative. Unlike other sources of ungrammaticality, it often has repairs: constructions that exist only to fix it and not otherwise. Across the four languages considered here, the repairs are apparently heterogeneous, 'constructional': clitic-to-strong dative, agreeing-to-nonagreeing dative, pronoun-to-"pronoun's self" object, absolutive-to-ergative subject. Yet there are profound and far-reaching commonalities across them, hinting at a single mechanism of strengthening by added Case that underlies them all.