“…Fontana assumes that clitics could be: (a) adjoined to the left of IP; (b) substituted in the Spec, IP; or (c) adjoined either to the left or to the right of an XP in the Spec, IP position (p. 233) in the syntax. In another study, Mallen ( 1999) relates the raising of Agr to Camp to the clitic-verb order, and the absence of such raising to the verb-clitic order. The present paper, without attempting to investigate the OS clitic placement possibilities in any comprehensive or exhaustive manner, examines the alleged descriptive and/or explanatory adequacy of the Agr-based (i.e., syntactic-checking) approach to OS cliticization, focusing on one such proposal, namely, the Agr-raising analysis proposed by Mallen ( 1999).…”