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Les propositions infinitives indépendantes enfantines et la distribution des pronoms objets en français et en néerlandais

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Liliane Haegeman
Liliane Haegeman*
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UMR 8528 Silex du CNRS, Université Charles de Gaulle Lille III
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Abstract

This article concerns the distribution of clitics in the child root infinitives in French and in Dutch. In the material studied, subject clitics are absent both from French and Dutch root infinitives; object clitics are present in French root infinitives while remaining absent from Dutch root infinitives. It is proposed that this cross-linguistic difference is related to the difference in the licensing site of the object clitics, which is taken to be AgrO in French and AgrS in Dutch. The hypothesis thus casts doubt on proposals according to which clitics are universally base-generated in specialised functional positions in the structure (Sportiche 1996; Schaeffer 1997).

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Cet article concerne la distribution des clitiques sujets et objets dans la proposition infinitive indépendante enfantine (IPE). Le problème est abordé dans une optique comparative, les langues comparées sont le néerlandais et le français. Dans le corpus étudié, les clitiques sujets sont absents des IPE dans les deux langues, tandis que les clitiques objets sont attestés dans les IPE françaises mais sont absents des IPE néerlandaises. Il est proposé que l’asymétrie dans la distribution des clitiques objets dans les IPE de ces deux langues est due à une différence dans le site de légitimation du clitique: en français, le clitique objet est légitimé dans AgrO tandis qu’en néerlandais, il est légitimé dans AgrS. L’hypothèse élaborée remet en question des propositions récentes selon lesquelles il existe un point unique de légitimation des clitiques dans les deux langues (Sportiche 1996; Scaeffer 1997).

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 45 , Special Issue 1-2: Syntaxe et acquisition du francais langue maternelle , June 2000 , pp. 63 - 96
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 2000

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