In:Sound, Syntax and Contact in the Languages of Asturias
Edited by Guillermo Lorenzo
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 36] 2022
► pp. 93–108
Chapter 5¿Qué che femos con el che?
Some properties of the ethical dative ‘che’ in Asturian Galician
Published online: 1 March 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.36.05var
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.36.05var
Abstract
This chapter is devoted to the pervasive use in Asturian Galician of a clitic token formally identical to the second person singular dative, albeit with different conditions of use and subject to very different placement restrictions. We claim that such item incorporates a ‘clusivity’ feature as an extension of the second person, compatible with its modal meaning, and that it benefits from the underspecification of the vocabulary item that also materializes the dative. We also claim that it belongs to a class different to ‘determiner-type’ clitics and ‘agreement-type’ clitics, which we deem ‘other-type.’ Despite its specificities, the chapter shows that it is not, however, a peripheric unit, inasmuch as its behavior is fully consistent with UG dictums.
Keywords: pronominal clitics, modal clitics, ethical dative, clitic clusters
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The syntax of clitic pronouns
- 3.Syntactic characterization of ED che in Asturian Galician
- 3.1Compatibility with other kinds of datives
- 3.2Incompatibility with phrasal associates
- 3.3Invisibility to the Person-Case Constraint (PCC)
- 4.Towards an explanation and some of its consequences
- 5.Conclusions
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