The Person-Case constraint and repair strategies

Abstract

Crucial to the ungrammaticality of (1) is the fact that it contains two clitics, which correspond to the direct object, Direct Object (me), and the indirect object, Indirect Object (li), and where the Direct Object clitic is first person and the Indirect Object clitic is third person. If the roles were reversed (first person corresponding to the Indirect Object and third person corresponding to the Direct Object), no conflict would arise, as illustrated in (2).