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Prepositional clitics as hybrid categories

“…The apparent unification is a PF phenomenon, in line with suggestions by Anderson (1993). Under the assumptions laid out in Haverkort (1993), the verb in AGRs does not create a minimality barrier for the dative clitic, since the latter is an instance of Α-bar head movement, whereas the former is an instance of Α-movement. There are a number of interesting, non-trivial issues raised by linear order, but space limitations prevent me from going into those here.…”

“…Broadly speaking, two approaches to the syntax of clitics can be distinguished in the literature: (a) a base-generation approach, where the clitic is base-generated in its surface position, from where it can license an empty element elsewhere in the sentence (Rivas 1977, Jaeggli 1982, Borer 1984, and (b) a movement approach, where the clitic is base-generated as an argument of some lexical head and moved to its surface position during the syntactic derivation (Kayne 1975, Pijnenburg 1991, Haverkort 1993. Emonds' paper clearly belongs to the first tradition.…”