Toward a uniform account of scrambling and clitic doubling

Specificity in Clitic Doubling and in Differential Object Marking

“…linked readings are admissible in CD contexts. Moreover, the absence of weak crossover effects with doubled quantifiers, already pointed out in Suñer (1988Suñer ( , 1991, Dobrovie-Sorin (1990) and Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou (1997), is due to the disappearance of such effects with referential expressions, and the same account works for a property of doubling constructions that is known as a typical specificity restriction, i.e. opacity for extraction processes (Sánchez 2005).…”

“…This is the central issue addressed in this work, and thus I will leave its discussion for sections 3 and 4; I will use the term specificity effects to refer to the consequences of the requirement in both constructions. A number of related facts may be treated as simple by-products of the specificity condition in CD and DOM: the constraint against bare nouns and incorporated nominals, the preference for wide scope readings, and the fading of weak-crossover effects (see Dobrovie-Sorin 1990, Suñer 1991, Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou 1997; also section 3).…”

Clitics and direct objects in Macedonian

“…15 (In this I depart from Sportiche (1998) who maintains that clitics license specificity in the doubled DP.) The licensing of the feature is carried out through a spec-head agreement, which means that the doubled DP moves 15 For similar proposals see also Kallulli (1999;2000), Alexiadou-Anagnostopoulou (1997), Anagnostopoulou (1999), who follow Sportiche in analyzing the clitic as the head of ClP. These proposals, however, differ from the one given here in that the clitic is a licensor of features other than strength.…”

“…Kallulli, for example, argues that the clitic in Greek and Albanian licenses a [−focus] feature because focused elements cannot be CDed in these two languages. Alexiadou -Anagnostopoulou (1997) and Anagnostopoulou (1999) take the clitic to be an agreement marker, following Suñer (1988).…”

Scrambling, Optionality and Non-Lexical Triggers

“…Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou (1997) argue that there are some striking resemblances between scrambling in Germanic and clitic doubling constructions in Greek and Romance.…”