3rd Person Needs Licensing Too: Examining the se/suu Connection
3rd Person Needs Licensing Too: Examining the se/suu Connection
Author(s): Gurmeet Kaur, Louise RaynaudSubject(s): Syntax, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: licensing; person; reflexives; anchoring; agreement;
Summary/Abstract: This paper introduces two instances of person effects with 3rd person items – the reflexive clitic se in French and the non-honorific clitic pronoun suu in Punjabi. Examining the properties of these items, we argue against the phi-feature based accounts of person licensing. Instead, we re-conceptualize it as a syntactico-semantic phenomenon, which requires a pronominal to be contextually-anchored via a feature labeled [F]. More globally, this paper attempts to work out the special status of person and articulate why person requires special licensing in grammar.
Journal: Studies in Polish Linguistics
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: Special
- Page Range: 11-33
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English