Structure of Romance					Fall 2016
Assignment 6: Spanish Clitics Some More

This problem will be about the behavior of clitics in complex sentences
(i.e. sentences that contain embedded clauses, particularly clauses embedded
as complements to V).

1.  First, recall that combinations of clitics must respect the order in (1):

(1)  se    II    I    III
                    DAT ACC

Examples (3) and (4) illustrate a constraint that we have not explicitly
observed before:

(2)    Estaba mostrandotelos.
       I was showing them to you.

(3)   *Los estaba mostrandote.
(4)   *Te estaba mostrandolos.  (My source says that (4) is better than (3), but still bad.)

(5)    Te los estaba mostrando.

ADDED 5/17/21:

(18)  Queri'a haber estado comiendo las truchas.
     "I would have liked to have been eating the trout."

(19)  Queri'a haber estado comiendolas.
     *Queri'a haber estadolas comiendo.
      Queri'a haberlas estado comiendo.
     *Queri'a las haber estado comiendo.
      Las queri'a haber estado comiendo.

(20)  Queri'a haber estado dandoles las truchas a las chicas.
     "I would like to have been giving the trout to the girls."

(21)  Queri'a haber estado da'ndoselas.
     *Queri'a haber estadoselas dando.
      Queri'a haberselas estado dando.
     *Queri'a se las haber estado dando.
      Se las queri'a haber estado dando.

(22) *Queri'a haberse estado da'ndolas.
     *Queri'a haberles estado dandolas.
     *Queri'a haberse estado dandolas.
     *Queri'a haber estado dando.
     *Se queri'a haberlas estado dando.


We'll have to say something particular about clitics to rule out the ungrammatical sentences.
What is it?

At this point it might be a good idea to state exactly what we have determined about
clitic movement, before attempting the remainder of this problem.

2.  This assignment will assume that you have an understanding of Raising and Control
constructions, which are exemplified in Spanish in the following examples:

RAISING:

(6)   Luis suele comer manzanas.
      Luis tends to eat apples.

(7)   Luis parece haber comido manzanas.
      Luis appears to have eaten apples.

CONTROL:

(8)   Luis quiere comer manzanas.
      Luis wants to eat apples.

(9)   Luis trato' de comer manzanas.
      Luis tried to eat apples.

(10)  Luis insistio' en comer manzanas.
      Luis insisted on eating apples.

(11)  Luis son~o' con comer manzanas.
      Luis dreamed of eating apples.

Notice that some control verbs require an apparently idiosyncratically seleced
Preposition introducing their complement.  We won't worry about that, except to notice it.

In case your understanding of Raising and Control constructions is rusty, we'll be
discussing that in sections this week.

Now observe the following unsurprising facts (unsurprising because the clitics are
(I believe) exactly where we expect them to be):

(12)  Luis suele comerlas.
      Luis parece estar comie'ndolas.
      Luis quiere comerlas.
      Luis trato' de comerlas.
      Luis insistio' en comerlas.
      Luis son~o' con comerlas.

But the following might be surprising:

(13)  Luis las suele comer.
     *Luis las parece estar comiendo.
      Luis las quiere comer.
      Luis las trato' de comer.
     *Luis las insistio' en comer.
     *Luis las son~o' con comer.

Clearly some Raising/Control verbs permit the clitic to attach to the matrix verb,
and some do not.  I won't ask you to find out which do and which don't, but here is a list
provided by the provider god:

VERBS THAT DO				VERBS THAT DON'T

soler		'tend'			parecer		'seem'
acabar (de)	'have just'		insistir (en)	'insist'
querer		'want'			son~ar (con)	'dream (of)'
tratar (de)	'try'			decidirse (a)	'decide'
poder		'can'			evitar		'avoid'
deber		'ought'			sugerir		'suggest'
empezar (a)	'begin'			pedir		'request'
terminar (de)	'finish'		decir		'say'
continuar	'continue'		afirmar		'affirm'
seguir		'continue'
dejar (de)	'stop, leave off'
volver (a)	'repeat'
permitir	'permit'

Somebody decided to call the DO verbs "trigger verbs" and the DON'T verbs "nontrigger
verbs".  We may slip and use that terminology.

Now here is an interim task:  Decide how you want to revise our statement of
Clitic Movement so as to account for the facts observed so far.

[THIS PROBLEM IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION.  MORE WILL BE ADDED, BUT YOU CAN START NOW.]
[CONTINUATION STARTS HERE]

3.  The following facts show something interesting about this phenomenon (let's
call it "clitic climbing", with no prejudice about how it works).

(14)  Quiero mostra'rtelos.
      I want to show them to you.

      Te los quiero mostrar.
     *Te quiero mostrarlos.
     *Los quiero mostrarte.

(15)  Quiero permitirte hacerlo.
      I want to permit you to do it.

      Quiero permiti'rtelo hacer.
      Te lo quiero permitir hacer.
      Te quiero permitir hacerlo.
     *Te quiero permitirlo hacer.
     *Lo quiero permitirte hacer.

EXTRA FACTS:

(16)  Empezo' a tratar de arreglarlo.
      I began to try to fix it.

      Lo empezo' a tratar de arreglar.

(17)  Empezo' a son~ar con arreglarlo.
      I began to dream of fixing it.

     *Lo empezo' a son~ar con arreglar.

NOTE:  There's a proposal within the framework of Relational Grammar to account for these
facts, involving an operation called "clause union".  It's not clear how to modernize it.