Clitic climbing in Romance: "Restructuring", causatives, and object-control verbs
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"Restructuring" in Romance refers to constructions which appear to violate Standard locality constraints, thereby presenting a challenge for syntactic theory. One of the most well-studied cases of restructuring is that of clitic climbing. This is illustrated in the Italian example (la), in which the clitic lo, the apparent object of leggere, appears on the higher verb vuole. As shown in (lb), it can even move past more than one verb.
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