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The form and distribution of pronouns varies considerably cross-linguistically. In this paper, I will propose that there is a direct relation between the form (i.e. DP internal realization), and syntactic distribution (i.e. DP external realization).
This paper is dedicated to the memory of Osvaldo Jaeggli. I have been interested for a long time in the distribution of pronouns, and the relation between pronouns, clitics, and agreement (Koopman (1984, 73–76), Koopman and Sportiche (1982) and Koopman and Sportiche (1989)). This paper grew out of a presentation given at MIT in 1987 (“Restrictions on Spec positions”), where I proposed that pronouns but not lexical DPs occur in particular Spec positions in the overt syntax, and ideas about the internal DP structure of pronominal DP (Koopman, 1991). Special thanks to participants of several seminars at UCLA (Spring 1989, Spring 1991, and winter 1993) where part of this material was developed, to audiences at UCLA and Geneva, to Randall Hendrick, James McCloskey, Richard Sproat, for e-mail conversations on Welsh, to Ian Roberts for getting me help with judgments on some crucial Welsh examples, to Arild Hestvik for discussions on Norwegian, and to Kyle Johnson, Tim Stowell and Dominique Sportiche for comments on a previous version of this article (June 1993). The present article is to a large extent identical to the December 1993 version.
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Koopman, H. (1999). The Internal and External Distribution of Pronominal DPs. In: Johnson, K., Roberts, I. (eds) Beyond Principles and Parameters. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4822-1_4
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