Interaction, Satisfaction, and the PCC @cite{deal-2024} #
@cite{deal-2024} unifies the Person Case Constraint (PCC) typology under a single Agree operation with two independently parameterized conditions:
- Interaction (INT): what features the probe copies from a goal.
- Satisfaction (SAT): what features halt the probe.
The probe encounters DO first ("DO preference"). If DO satisfies the probe, it halts before reaching IO — creating a PCC violation when IO requires licensing. If DO does not satisfy, the probe copies DO's features and continues to IO. Dynamic interaction narrows the probe's subsequent INT condition based on what was copied from DO.
PCC Typology #
Two parameters — satisfaction feature and dynamic interaction configuration — derive five attested PCC varieties:
| SAT | DynINT | PCC type | Licit |
|---|---|---|---|
| [PART] | none | Strong | 3 |
| [SPKR] | none | Me-first | 6 |
| none | [PART]↑ | Weak | 7 |
| [SPKR] | [PART]↑ | Strictly descending | 5 |
| none | none | No PCC | 9 |
Bridge Results #
This study file connects @cite{deal-2024}'s framework to both:
- @cite{pancheva-zubizarreta-2018} (
PConstraint.lean): exact match for Strong, Weak, and Me-first (all 9 cells); 7/9 match for Strictly Descending vs Ultra-strong (discrepancies on reflexive SAP combinations). - @cite{bejar-rezac-2009} (
CyclicAgree.lean): probe satisfaction in Deal's sense corresponds to residue depletion in cyclic Agree — a DP satisfies SAT:[PART] iff it depletes the partial probe's residue.
Person features in @cite{deal-2024}'s geometry.
[φ] → [PART] → [SPKR]
→ [ADDR]
Maps onto DecomposedPerson: [PART] = hasParticipant,
[SPKR] = hasAuthor, [ADDR] = (person == .second).
- phi : PersonFeature
- part : PersonFeature
- spkr : PersonFeature
- addr : PersonFeature
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Does a DP of person level p bear feature f?
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- Phenomena.Agreement.Studies.Deal2024.dpBears p Phenomena.Agreement.Studies.Deal2024.PersonFeature.phi = true
- Phenomena.Agreement.Studies.Deal2024.dpBears p Phenomena.Agreement.Studies.Deal2024.PersonFeature.part = (Minimalism.decomposePerson p).hasParticipant
- Phenomena.Agreement.Studies.Deal2024.dpBears p Phenomena.Agreement.Studies.Deal2024.PersonFeature.spkr = (Minimalism.decomposePerson p).hasAuthor
- Phenomena.Agreement.Studies.Deal2024.dpBears p Phenomena.Agreement.Studies.Deal2024.PersonFeature.addr = (p == Core.Prominence.PersonLevel.second)
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Dynamic interaction configurations.
After copying features from DO, the probe's subsequent INT condition
may narrow. The ↑ notation indicates which features trigger narrowing.
none_: no dynamic narrowingpart: [PART]↑ — if DO bears [PART], INT narrows to [PART]spkr: [SPKR]↑ — if DO bears [SPKR], INT narrows to [SPKR]partAndSpkr: both [PART]↑ and [SPKR]↑ — [SPKR]↑ takes priority
- none_ : DynInteraction
- part : DynInteraction
- spkr : DynInteraction
- partAndSpkr : DynInteraction
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A grammar in @cite{deal-2024}'s framework.
Two parameters determine the PCC type:
satisfaction: which feature, if present on DO, halts the probe.nonemeans the probe is never satisfied by DO alone.dynInteraction: which features trigger dynamic narrowing of the probe's INT condition after interacting with DO.
- satisfaction : Option PersonFeature
- dynInteraction : DynInteraction
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Is a clitic combination ⟨IO, DO⟩ licit under a Deal grammar?
The probe encounters DO first ("DO preference"):
- If DO bears the SAT feature → probe satisfied → halts before IO → IO not licensed → illicit.
- Otherwise, the probe copies features from DO. Dynamic interaction may narrow the probe's subsequent INT condition.
- If narrowing occurred, IO must bear the narrowed feature to be visible to the probe. If IO is invisible → illicit.
- If no narrowing, IO is always visible → licit.
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Strong PCC: SAT:[PART], no dynamic interaction. DO bearing [PART] satisfies the probe → only 3P DOs survive.
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Me-first PCC: SAT:[SPKR], no dynamic interaction. Only 1P DOs satisfy the probe → only 1P DOs are banned.
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Weak PCC: no satisfaction, [PART]↑ dynamic interaction. The probe is never satisfied by DO, but copying [PART] from a SAP DO narrows the probe so it can only see [PART]-bearing IOs.
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- Phenomena.Agreement.Studies.Deal2024.weak = { satisfaction := none, dynInteraction := Phenomena.Agreement.Studies.Deal2024.DynInteraction.part }
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Strictly descending PCC: SAT:[SPKR], [PART]↑ dynamic interaction. 1P DOs satisfy (banned); SAP DOs narrow the probe to require [PART] on IO.
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No PCC: no satisfaction, no dynamic interaction. The probe never halts at DO and never narrows.
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- Phenomena.Agreement.Studies.Deal2024.noPCC = { satisfaction := none, dynInteraction := Phenomena.Agreement.Studies.Deal2024.DynInteraction.none_ }
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⟨1,2⟩ is licit: 2P DO doesn't bear [SPKR] (no SAT); dynamic narrowing requires IO to bear [PART]; 1P bears [PART].
⟨2,2⟩ is licit: 2P DO lacks [SPKR]; narrowing requires [PART] on IO; 2P IO bears [PART].
⟨3,2⟩ is illicit: 2P DO lacks [SPKR] but bears [PART]; narrowing requires [PART] on IO; 3P IO lacks [PART].
Count licit combinations (out of 9 = 3×3).
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Deal's Strong PCC matches P&Z's Strong PCC on all 9 cells.
Deal's Weak PCC matches P&Z's Weak PCC on all 9 cells.
Deal's Me-first PCC matches P&Z's Me-first PCC on all 9 cells.
Strictly descending agrees with ultra-strong on 7 of 9 cells. All non-reflexive-SAP combinations match.
Strictly descending diverges from ultra-strong on ⟨1,1⟩: Deal bans it (1P DO satisfies SAT:[SPKR]), P&Z allows it (P-Primacy rescues: 1P IO is [+author]).
Strictly descending diverges from ultra-strong on ⟨2,2⟩: Deal allows it (2P lacks [SPKR]; narrowing requires [PART]; 2P bears [PART]), P&Z bans it (P-Uniqueness violated, 2P lacks [+author] so no P-Primacy rescue).
Probe satisfaction in @cite{deal-2024}'s sense (SAT:[PART]) corresponds to residue depletion in @cite{bejar-rezac-2009}'s cyclic Agree.
A DP fully checks the partial probe [uπ, uParticipant] iff it bears [PART]. In Deal's terms, such a DP satisfies a SAT:[PART] probe. In B&R's terms, it depletes the active residue to ∅.
This bridges the two frameworks: "the probe is satisfied" (Deal) ↔ "no active residue remains" (B&R).
The converse direction: a DP that does NOT bear [PART] leaves non-empty residue — the probe continues to the next cycle.
SAT:[PART] yields the Strong PCC regardless of dynamic interaction.
This is the key insight of Table (53): when DO bears [PART], the probe is satisfied before any dynamic narrowing can take effect. Since [SPKR] and [ADDR] geometrically entail [PART], any DP that would trigger dynamic interaction via [SPKR]↑ or [PART]↑ also satisfies SAT:[PART]. Therefore, dynamic interaction is irrelevant when SAT = [PART].
You-first PCC (predicted): SAT:[ADDR], no dynamic interaction. 2P DOs satisfy the probe → ⟨IO, 2P DO⟩ is illicit. Predicted by @cite{deal-2024} §6.1 but not yet robustly attested.
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A-descending PCC (predicted): SAT:[ADDR], [PART]↑ dynamic interaction. IO must outrank DO on the hierarchy 2 > 1 > 3. @cite{deal-2024} §6.1 notes hints of this pattern in Catalan and Italian speaker variation.
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Reverse PCC: the probe encounters IO before DO (IO preference).
@cite{deal-2024} §6.2: in structures where IO moves to a position between v and DO, the probe encounters IO first. This reverses the PCC restriction — now IO features can satisfy/narrow the probe, and DO is the argument that may fail to be licensed.
Attested in Shapsug Adyghe, varieties of Swiss German, Czech, and Slovenian.
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Reverse strictly descending PCC (Shapsug Adyghe): DO must outrank IO on the hierarchy 1 > 2 > 3 — the mirror image of forward SD.
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Strong PCC (2a): DO must be 3P. Any IO is licit with a 3P DO; any SAP DO is illicit regardless of IO.
Weak PCC (2b): if IO is 3P, DO must be 3P. Equivalently: the only illicit cells are ⟨3P IO, SAP DO⟩.
Me-first PCC (2c): if 1P is present, it must be IO. Equivalently: DO cannot be 1P.
Strictly descending PCC (2d): IO must outrank DO on 1 > 2 > 3. For the 6 non-diagonal cells, this is exactly the pattern. (Diagonal cells: ⟨3,3⟩ and ⟨2,2⟩ are licit; ⟨1,1⟩ is illicit because SAT:[SPKR] fires.)
Strong entails strictly descending: anything licit under Strong is licit under SD. (Strong bans all SAP DOs; SD bans only 1P DOs and ⟨3P IO, SAP DO⟩.)
dpBears is grounded in the shared feature geometry decomposePerson
from PersonGeometry.lean. This makes the connection structural — Deal's
person features are not independently stipulated but derived from the
same privative geometry used by @cite{pancheva-zubizarreta-2018}'s
satisfiesProminence and @cite{bejar-rezac-2009}'s personSpec.