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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967276503321

Autore

Gerlach Birgit

Titolo

Clitics between syntax and lexicon / / Birgit Gerlach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2002

ISBN

9786612161988

9781282161986

1282161989

9789027297549

9027297541

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, , 0166-0829 ; ; v. 51

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Clitics

Romance languages - Clitics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-253) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Clitics between Syntax and Lexicon -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The status of Romance clitics between words and affixes -- Chapter 3: Clitics in the lexicon -- Chapter 4: Clitic sequences -- Chapter 5: Syntax at the interfaces: Clitic placement and clitic doubling -- Chapter 6: Summary -- References -- Appendix -- Language index -- Name index -- Subject index -- Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Sommario/riassunto

As a typical interface phenomenon, clitics have become increasingly important in linguistic theory during the last decade. The present book contributes to the recent discussion and first provides a comprehensive overview of clitic sequencing, clitic placement and clitic doubling in the major Romance languages. In addition, new data from a northern Italian dialect are introduced. The author then gives a critical summary of the current morphological analyses of clitic phenomena. She also discusses recent Optimality-theoretical analyses of clitic combinations and clitic placement and shows how these analyses can be improved upon when we also consider a morphological treatment of clitics. This book provides innovative solutions to clitic phenomena within the



framework of a constraint-based morphological theory and will be of interest not only to morphologists, syntacticians and those working on the grammar of Romance languages, but also to linguists who are interested in the organisation of the grammar and the lexicon.