TY - JOUR
TI - 3rd Person Needs Licensing Too: Examining the se/suu Connection
AU - Kaur, Gurmeet
AU - Raynaud, Louise
TI - 3rd Person Needs Licensing Too: Examining the se/suu Connection
AB - 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.
VL - Special Volume
IS - Special Volume 1 (2019)
PY - 2019
SN - 1732-8160
C1 - 2300-5920
SP - 11
EP - 33
DO - 10.4467/23005920SPL.19.004.10984
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studies-in-polish-linguistics/article/3rd-person-needs-licensing-too-examining-the-se-suu-connection
KW - licensing
KW - person
KW - reflexives
KW - anchoring
KW - agreement