Locality and Agreement in French Hyper-Complex Inversion. Kayne, R. S. & Pollock, J. In Locality. Oxford University Press, New York, 2014.
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French HCI (hyper-complex inversion) constitutes a new probe into questions of locality related to clitic climbing and shows that (some) French actually allows clitic climbing out of non-causative infinitive phrases in cases not studied previously. HCI also constitutes a new probe into questions of number agreement involving the licensing of two distinct subjects in what looks like a simple sentence. The correct analysis appears to necessarily involve, in at least some cases, two distinct agreement morphemes, in a way that sharply distinguishes singular from plural.
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	address = {New York},
	title = {Locality and {Agreement} in {French} {Hyper}-{Complex} {Inversion}},
	isbn = {978-0-19-994526-9},
	url = {https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945269.001.0001/acprof-9780199945269-chapter-2},
	abstract = {French HCI (hyper-complex inversion) constitutes a new probe into questions of locality related to clitic climbing and shows that (some) French actually allows clitic climbing out of non-causative infinitive phrases in cases not studied previously. HCI also constitutes a new probe into questions of number agreement involving the licensing of two distinct subjects in what looks like a simple sentence. The correct analysis appears to necessarily involve, in at least some cases, two distinct agreement morphemes, in a way that sharply distinguishes singular from plural.},
	language = {eng},
	urldate = {2022-02-16},
	booktitle = {Locality},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	author = {Kayne, Richard S. and Pollock, Jean-Yves},
	year = {2014},
	doi = {10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945269.003.0002},
	keywords = {French syntax, agreement, inversion, subject clitics},
}

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