Abstract The Person Case Constraint blocks certain combinations of clitics and weak pronouns in a variety of languages. Out of the numerous logical possibilities, only four variants of the Person Case Constraint are attested. I show that these four variants form a natural class when viewed from an algebraic perspective grounded in feature geometry.
@Misc{Graf13USCtalk,
author = {Graf, Thomas},
title = {Of Tops and Bottoms: {T}he Algebra of Person Case
Constraints},
year = {2013},
note = {Slides of a talk given at the Souther California Students
in Linguistics Conference 2013 (SCSiL 2013), January 18,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA}
}