We address in this talk a reverse weak Person-Case Constraint (PCC) effect
observed in object marking in Washo (Hokan/isolate, USA), in which the verb
always marks the person of the subject, while object marking is more
complex. More specifically, overt objects are never marked, and marking of
covert objects is obligatory where possible, which is only with certain
subject-object feature combinations: While participant (1st/2nd person)
objects are marked regardless of the person of the subject, 3rd person
object marking is only allowed if the subject is also 3rd person. This is
the “reverse” (Stegovec 2020) of the weak version of the PCC (e.g. in
Catalan), in which a 3rd person indirect object clitic is blocked in the
presence of a lower participant direct object clitic while other
combinations are allowed. We draw a comparison with Aleut, in which covert
objects also trigger verbal marking, and the combined expression of subject
and object marking is also constrained by PCC effects, which, unlike in
Washo, are strong and not reverse (Boyle 2000, Merchant 2011, Woolford
2018). We argue for an analysis of the facts in both languages that employs
syntactic Agree-based mechanisms normally used in deriving PCC effects.
[Different from the submitted abstract, we will analyze the pattern with
Deal's (2015, 2020) interaction/satisfaction framework for Agree, with one
result being that we no longer need movement of the object over the
subject.]