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Western Iranian Pronominal Clitics
International audienceThis article attempts to account for the derivation of pronominal clitics in contemporary Western Iranian languages. It argues against the common assumption (detailed in Section I) that all clitics derive from thegenitive/dative ...
Korn, Agnes
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Clitics have given rise to an enormous number of studies. In particular, they have been (and still are) an extremely popular topic of research in various versions of generative grammar, including Minimalism, and other formal theories such as Optimality ...
LURAGHI, SILVIA
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A Phase Approach to Spanish Object Clitics [PDF]
In light of recent attempts to revive the operation of syntactic head movement and clitic movement in Phase Theory (Roberts 2010a, 2012), we argue that object clitics are underlyingly determiners in the syntax.
Romain, Ian James
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The paper explores two hypotheses: that the acquisition of clitics in Serbo-Croatian includes a stage in which children generalize pro as the uninflected clitic pronoun for both subjects and direct objects, before acquiring the inflection for the ...
Arsenijević, Boban
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Arbitrary SE and accusative clitics in Catalan
This paper is dedicated to co-occurrence restrictions induced by accusative clitics in contexts containing the se marker with arbitrary interpretations.
Monica Irimia, Anna Pineda
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Subject clitic variation in a northern Italian dialect
PhDThis study investigates the phenomenon of subject clitic (henceforth, SCl) variation in Ligurian, a variety spoken in the north-west of Italy. Through the examination of empirical data, this work shows that variation can be incorporated in the theory ...
Ciarlo, Chiara, Chiara Ciarlo
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V-Movement, subject clitics, and inversion
Building on new evidence from Bolognese, this paper proposes an account for the appearance and distribution of φ-related subject clitics both within and among Gallo-Italic grammars that relies only on independently motivated mechanisms.
Edward Rubin
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Pronominal Clitics in Persian: A Distributed Morphology Approach [PDF]
Persian independent pronouns can be considered as the head of noun phrases) Shaghaghi, 2015). However, the head of the noun phrase with a prepositional phrase (preposition + pronominal clitic) can be occupied by a pronominal clitic.
Hannah Hosseini +2 more
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On the Nature of Clitics and Their Sensitivity to Number Attraction Effects
Pronominal dependencies have been shown to be more resilient to attraction effects than subject-verb agreement. We use this phenomenon to investigate whether antecedent-clitic dependencies in Spanish are computed like agreement or like pronominal ...
Mikel Santesteban +3 more
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This text was written for the Enciclopedia dell italiano. It describes and analyses the clitic pronouns of Italian from a lexicalistic and feature-based perspective.
Schwarze, Christoph
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