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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825963703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2000

ISBN

1-282-16339-6

9786612163395

90-272-9919-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (455 pages)

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

GerlachBirgit

GrijzenhoutJanet

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Clitics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.