@article {7214,
	title = {French Clitic Climbing as Periphrasis},
	journal = {Lingvistic{\ae} Investigationes},
	volume = {43},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {23{\textendash}61},
	abstract = {<p>In this article, we propose a treatment of French clitic climbing as an instance of morphological periphrasis. In particular we reexamine the evidence in favour of argument composition and a flat VP structure with tense auxiliaries (Abeill\&eacute; \&amp; Godard, 2002) and show (i) that the V (vs. VP) status of the complement does not strictly correlate with the possibility of clitic climbing, (ii) that transparency in bounded dependencies transcends the class of argument composition verbs, and (iii) that a flat VP structure complicates the treatment of modification and coordination. Adopting an approach in terms of periphrastic realisation along the lines of Bonami (2015), we provide a treatment of the climbing facts that does full justice to the limited mobility and their morphologically bound status (Miller, 1992) without having to rely on a flat VP structure. Finally, we show that the pronominalisation and extraction facts can be dealt with in a uniform fashion by way of constraints on canonical vs. non-canonical argument realisation.</p>
},
	keywords = {clitic climbing, flat structure, French VP, hierarchical structure, periphrasis},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1075/li.00039.agu},
	url = {https://benjamins.com/catalog/li.00039.agu},
	author = {Aguila-Multner, Gabrielle and Crysmann, Berthold}
}
