Thanks to the following people for helpful comments on one or more of the various versions of this paper: Mark Baker, Adriana Belletti, Noam Chomsky, Des Derbyshire, Charlotte Galves, Ken Hale, Ellen Kaisse, Sam Mchombo, Carlos Quicoli, and Luigi Rizzi. Special thanks go to Osvaldo Jaeggli for a number of helpful criticisms and to Alfredo Hurtado for listening and arguing. I also acknowledge the patient help of Frank Heny, Joan Maling, and anonymous NLLT reviewers for forcing me to write more clearly.
The writing of this paper was supported by a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and Grant BNS 8405996 from the National Science Foundation.
As the final version of this paper was nearing completion, I was shocked and saddened to learn of the death of my dear friend and esteemed colleague, Alfredo Hurtado. Alfredo's personal and intellectual encouragement while we were Visiting Scholars at M.I.T. in 1984–1985 was a major factor in my decision to publish this paper, which I dedicate to his memory.
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Everett, D.L. Pirahã clitic doubling. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 5, 245–276 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00166586
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