Clitics in phonology, morphology and syntax / edited by Birgit Gerlach, Janet Grijzenhout.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gerlach, Birgit.

Grijzenhout, Janet.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 36.

Linguistik aktuell, 0166-0829 = Linguistics today ; v. 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Clitics--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (455 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper explores the conjecture that clitic doubling in languages like Spanish shares some fundamental aspects of the semantics of inalienable possession, especially if understood in terms of a syntax of the kind originally advocated by Szabolcsi (1983). A few paradigms are discussed where this correlation would explain otherwise peculiar properties, concerning subtle details in the referentiality of clitic arguments and the aspectual properties of the event where they are taken to participate. In the process, the semantic nature of clitic doubling is shifted from the domain of the obscure or pleonastic to that of integral relations. The paper closes with a syntactic puzzle that the hypothesized correlation poses.

Contents:

CLITICS IN PHONOLOGY,MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Clitics from different perspectives

The tonal phonology of Yoruba clitics

Adjective-clitic combinations in the Greek DP

Free clitics and bound a unitary analysis

Clitics and coordination in linear structure

The acquisition of clitics and strong pronouns in Catalan

The prosodic representation of clitics in Irish

Positioning Romanian verbal clitics at PF: An Optimality-Theoretic analysis

Clitic placement in the Romanian verbal complex

Romanian definite articles are not clitics

Clitics in the Srpske narodne pjesme

Verbal clitics in Bulgarian A Paradigm Function approach

Operator clitics

Doubling and possession

Name index

Subject index

The Series LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY.

Notes:

"This volume grew out of a workshop we organized in 1999 at the meeting of the German Society of Linguistics in Konstanz"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612163395

9781282163393

1282163396

9789027299192

9027299196

OCLC:

1491307646