In the article, a restriction of the co-occurrence of clitics in the Slovene clitic cluster is analysed. Following Orešnik (1985), only one clitic of a certain type can appear in the clitic cluster, e.g. only one dative clitic. On the basis of Chomsky's (1995) minimalist program, the restriction is accounted for by the principle of distinctness, as proposed by Richards (2010), a principle that also accounts for other restrictions on syntactic shifts in Slovene.
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