TOWARD A UNIFIED ANALYSIS OF ADDRESSEE IN C: EVIDENCE FROM GALICIAN SOLIDARITY DATIVES

A consensus view in recent formal work has been that allocutive marking reflects the presence of structure in the left periphery of the clause encoding features of the addressee. A question largely unaddressed in this literature is how this syntax interacts with other phenomena taken to motivate person-features in the left periphery. This paper focuses on allocutive morphemes in Galician. It argues that properties of these morphemes suggest a relationship between the syntax of allocutivity and two other syntactic mechanisms implicating person features in the left periphery: "C-T" person-feature inheritance and person-indexical shift. Similar properties are shown to hold for two other allocutive clitic varieties, Basque and Lebanese Arabic.