“…The morpho-syntactic status of nominative clitics in French has been the matter of much attention for years (e.g. Heap & Roberge, 2001 for an overview ranging from traditional to generative grammar). As far as generative linguistics is concerned, ever since Kayne's (1975) seminal work on subject and object clitics, and Rizzi's (1986) comparison between French and some Northern Italian dialects, the following question has arisen: Should French nominative clitics be analysed as proper syntactic arguments (Kayne, 1975; Rizzi, 1986; De Cat, 2005) or should they be considered as preverbal morphological affixes (Auger, 1994; Kaiser, 1994; Zribi-Hertz, 1994; Culbertson, 2010)?…”