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{Graf14CLStalk,
author = {Graf, Thomas},
title = {Feature Geometry and the Person Case Constraint: {A}n
Algebraic Link},
year = {2014},
note = {Slides of a talk given at {CLS 50}, April 10--12,
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL}
}