Srambling and Doubling ARTEMIS ALEXIADOU & ELENA ANAGNOSTOPOULOU Toward a uniform account of Scrambling and Clitic Doubling* 1. Aims and Background A commonly held view in the literature on Scrambling and Clitic Doubling is that both constructions are sensitive to Specificity. 1 For this reason Sportiche (1992) proposes to unify the two, an approach which has become quite standard in the relevant literature ever since. 2 However, the claim that clitic doubling is the counterpart of Germanic scrambling has never been substantiated. In this paper we present extensive evidence from Greek that Clitic Doubling has common formal properties with Germanic Scrambling/Object Shift. Our evidence consists mainly of binding facts observed when doubling takes place, which seem, at first sight, to be completely unexpected. On closer inspection, however, it turns out that these facts are strongly reminiscent of the effects showing up in Germanic scrambling. We propose that these properties can be derived under a theory of clitic constructions along the lines of Sportiche (1992) implemented into the framework of Chomsky (1995). Finally we suggest the that the crosslinguistic distribution of Scrambling as opposed to Clitic Doubling should be linked to a parameter relating to properties of Agr: Move/Merge XP vs. Move/Merge X to Agr. We show that this parameter unifies the behaviour of subjects and objects * Parts of the material discussed in this paper have been presented at the 11th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop in Rutgers, the Specifiers Conference at the University of York and the 19th GLOW Colloquium in Athens. We would like to thank the audiences for helpful comments. Many thanks to Werner Abraham, Elly van Gelderen, Marcel den Dikken, Eric Haberli, Uli Sauerland and Jean-Yves Pollock for comments on an earlier written version of this paper. 1 See Abraham 1994, 1995, Adger 1993, Diesing 1992, de Hoop 1992, Meinunger 1995, Runner 1993, Delfitto & Corver 1995 among others. 2 See Mahajan 1991 and Anagnostopoulou 1994 among others. CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Hochschulschriftenserver - Universität Frankfurt am Main