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.
@InProceedings{Graf14CLS,
author = {Graf, Thomas},
title = {Feature Geometry and the {P}erson {C}ase {C}onstraint: An
Algebraic Link},
year = {2014},
booktitle = {Proceedings of {CLS} 50},
note = {To appear},
url = {http://thomasgraf.net/doc/papers/Graf14CLS.pdf}
}