Clitics, pronouns and movement / edited by James R. Black, Virginia Motapanyane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Black, James R.

Motapanyane, Virginia.

Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. Meeting 1994 : Saint John, N.B.)

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 140.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 140

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Grammar, Comparative and general.

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

Grammar, Comparative and general--Word order--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The introduction to this volume by Anders Holmberg provides a reflection on movement in the light of recent developments in Minimalist theory. His discussion of the theories of category versus feature movement in terms of displacement and copying, provides the background for 12 papers dealing with clitics, pronouns and movement in variety of language families. Articles on Romance include papers on the genitive clitic in Andean Spanish, proclitic groups and word order in Caribbean Spanish, overt pronouns and empty categories in Brazilian Portuguese, the clitic en in Catalan, and clitic d

Contents:

Introduction : some reflections on movement / Anders Holmberg

The genitive clitic and the genitive construction in Andean Spanish / José Camacho, Liliana Paredes & Liliana Sánchez

Subject-object asymmetries and the clitic en / Corinne Cortés & Anna Gavarró

Clitic doubling, specificity and focus in Romanian / Diana Gierling

Reiterative syntax / Peter Hallman

Experience versus non-experience asymmetries in the causative system / Fusa Katada

Movement of verbal complements / Karen Lattewitz

The ba construction in Mandarin Chinese : a serial verbal analysis / Jen-i Jelina Li

Asymmetries in the distribution of overt pronouns and empty categories in Brazilian Portuguese / Esmeralda Vailati Negrão

Proclitic groups and word order in Caribbean Spanish / Yolanda Rivera-Castillo

Operator-bound clitics and Niuean ai / Diane Massam & Yves Roberge

Object shift in Serbo-Croatian / Danijela Stojanović

English finite auxiliaries in syntax and phonology / Chris Wilder.

Notes:

Chiefly papers presented at the 18th annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association, held Oct. 28-29, 1994, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-31247-6

9786613312471

90-272-7599-8

OCLC:

759101568