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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457265503321

Titolo

Clitics, pronouns and movement [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James R. Black, Virginia Motapanyane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1997

ISBN

1-283-31247-6

9786613312471

90-272-7599-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

BlackJames R

MotapanyaneVirginia

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Clitics

Grammar, Comparative and general - Pronoun

Grammar, Comparative and general - Word order

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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