%0 Journal Article
%T 3rd Person Needs Licensing Too: Examining the se/suu Connection
%A Kaur, Gurmeet
%A Raynaud, Louise
%J Studies in Polish Linguistics
%V Special Volume
%R 10.4467/23005920SPL.19.004.10984
%N Special Volume 1 (2019)
%P 11-33
%K licensing, person, reflexives, anchoring, agreement
%@ 1732-8160
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studies-in-polish-linguistics/article/3rd-person-needs-licensing-too-examining-the-se-suu-connection
%X This paper introduces two instances of person effects with 3rd person items – the reflexive clitic se in French and the non-honorific clitic pronoun suu in Punjabi. Examining the properties of these items, we argue against the phi-feature based accounts of person licensing. Instead, we re-conceptualize it as a syntactico-semantic phenomenon, which requires a pronominal to be contextually-anchored via a feature labeled [F]. More globally, this paper attempts to work out the special status of person and articulate why person requires special licensing in grammar.