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  <Title>Object clitics and clitic climbing in Italian HPSG</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> An analysis for the treatment of clitic climbing in Italian has been proposed. It relies on the idea that auxiliaries and clitic climbing trigger verbs subcategorize for a VP and for the raised complements of the VP. This analysis allows a unified treatment for the simple cases, namely when a clitic attaches to a host that subcategorizes for it and for the cases where clitics are involved in nonlocal dependencies.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> It has been shown that the analysis rules out ill-formed sentences. It is not necessary to state specific constraints that would be required in a treatment based on nonlocal features and the Nonlocal Feature Principle, which is another possible way to handle nonlocal dependencies in HPSG. Furthermore, the approach can easily account for another property of restructuring verbs namely long NP-movement.</Paragraph>
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