Clitics, Pronouns and Movement

Clitics, Pronouns and Movement
Title Clitics, Pronouns and Movement PDF eBook
Author James R. Black
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 377
Release 1997-04-24
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027275998

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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 doubling in Romanian. Papers on Germanic discuss movement of verbal complements in Dutch and German, analyses of English finite auxiliaries in syntax and phonology, and complementizers in dialects of German in a reiterative syntax analysis. Other articles deal with object shift in Serbo-Croatian, operator-bound clitics in Niuean, a serial verb analysis of the ba construction in Mandarin Chinese, and experiencer verbs in Japanese.

Pronouns and Clitics in Early Language

Pronouns and Clitics in Early Language
Title Pronouns and Clitics in Early Language PDF eBook
Author Pilar Larranaga
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 314
Release 2012-08-31
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110238810

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Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make them different from personal pronouns. This book focuses on the acquisition of personal and demonstrative pronouns as well as clitics with respect to determinative phrases in a variety of languages of the Romance family and several indigenous languages, such as Quechua. A particularly original aspect of the present volume is that it not only addresses syntactic issues, but also semantic and pragmatic questions that have been widely neglected in the literature. It also reports on acquisition data of languages, such as Quechua, which have not attracted the attention of researchers until very recently.

The Development of Romance Clitic Pronouns

The Development of Romance Clitic Pronouns
Title The Development of Romance Clitic Pronouns PDF eBook
Author Dieter Wanner
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 701
Release 2011-09-08
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110893061

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The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Clitics in Greek

Clitics in Greek
Title Clitics in Greek PDF eBook
Author Marios Mavrogiorgos
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 311
Release 2010
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027255431

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This monograph investigates the morpho-syntactic and other properties of clitic pronouns in Greek and offers a grammar of proclisis and enclisis in light of Chomsky s (1995, 2001a, 2005) Minimalist Program. It explores the nature of clitics as syntactic topicalizers which are probed by structurally higher verbal heads to which they move and into which they incorporate morpho-syntactically. A theory is advanced according to which cliticization derives from syntactic agreement between (the phi-features of) a clitic pronoun and a phase head, v* in the case of proclisis and CM in the case of enclisis. Incorporation of the clitic into its host is argued to depend on two factors, i.e. the fact that the clitic only contains a subset of the features of its host, and the fact that the edge of the host is accessible. Also, the syntax of strong pronouns and their relation to clitics, of negated imperatives, of surrogate imperatives and of free clitic ordering in Greek enclisis are also discussed. This monograph would appeal to syntacticians and morphologists as well as to those interested in Greek and more generally in clitic syntax."

Pronouns, Clitics and Empty Nouns

Pronouns, Clitics and Empty Nouns
Title Pronouns, Clitics and Empty Nouns PDF eBook
Author E. Phoevos Panagiotidis
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 221
Release 2002-03-22
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027297592

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Two issues little discussed in the generative literature are the internal structure of pronouns and what it is in Syntax that triggers pronominal reference. This monograph treats these two topics in detail and investigates whether pronominal (strong, weak and clitic pronouns) and related elliptical expressions can be given a unified syntactic representation. The answer, derived from a wealth of cross-linguistic evidence, is largely affirmative: pronominals include a semantically empty noun as part of their internal structure. The case of null subjects in ‘pro-drop’ languages is also examined and it is argued that they are not empty pronominal categories but, rather, the reflex of a ‘verbal determiner’. Finally, using the internal structure of pronouns as a sort of ‘litmus paper’, the book explores the relationship between functional and lexical heads as well as the notions of selection and licensing in syntax, and offers new insights into the categorial status of functional categories.

Clitics in the Languages of Europe

Clitics in the Languages of Europe
Title Clitics in the Languages of Europe PDF eBook
Author Henk van Riemsdijk
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 1048
Release 2011-03-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110804018

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The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

CLITICS, Pronouns and Movement

CLITICS, Pronouns and Movement
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