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Challenging Clitics
Challenging Clitics deals with multiple sides of cliticisation from different theoretical frameworks and with data from a number of different languages. Unlike many other books on clitics where clitics are considered from a mere syntactical point of view, this book also discusses the acquisition of clitics; the role of the PF in cliticisation; the morphophonological aspects of cliticisation; and historical change – to name but a few of the approaches presented. As such this collection presents cutting edge theoretical considerations as well as new data on clitics. Taken together, the contributions in this volume not only provide insight into the extremely complex nature of clitics, but also into derivations and structures in language that go beyond the study of clitics themselves.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 206] 2013. vii, 315 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 7 June 2013
Published online on 7 June 2013
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
- Why challenging clitics? Some introductory remarksChristine Meklenborg Salvesen and Hans Petter Helland | pp. 1–26
- Enclisis at the syntax-PF interfaceMarios Mavrogiorgos | pp. 27–54
- Clisis revisited: Root and embedded contexts in Western IberianFrancisco José Fernández-Rubiera | pp. 55–86
- Handling Wolof clitics in LFGCheikh Bamba Dione | pp. 87–118
- Clitic placement and grammaticalization in PortugueseFilomena Sandalo and Charlotte Galves | pp. 119–134
- Diachronic source of two cliticization patterns in SlavicKrzysztof Migdalski | pp. 135–158
- The Freezing Principle in Hungarian polarity, non-polarity and multiple wh-questionsGréte Dalmi | pp. 159–186
- Pronominal markers in Cajun FrenchFrancine Alice Girard Lomheim | pp. 187–208
- The morphosyntax of -nde and post-verbal clitics in Cypriot GreekNatalia Pavlou and E. Phoevos Panagiotidis | pp. 209–232
- Acquisition of Italian object clitics by a trilingual child: Acquisition of Italian object cliticsElizaveta Khachaturyan | pp. 233–254
- Clitic clusters in early Italo-Romance and the syntax/phonology interfaceDiego Pescarini | pp. 255–282
- Reflexive verbs and the restructuring of clitic clustersChristine Meklenborg Salvesen | pp. 283–310
- Language index | pp. 311–312
- Subject index | pp. 313–315
“Overall, the volume’s breadth of issues and methodologies is notable. The interdisciplinary, cutting-edge formal approaches to the interfaces at which clitics reside make it well worth the read for those interested in clitic phenomena. Despite its limitations from a functionalist point of view, this volume is successful in its goal of offering diverse perspectives on clitics cross-linguistically, and it is recommended for linguists who work on the theoretical side of the syntax-morphology interface.”
Hannah B. Washington, Ohio State University, on Linguist List 25.680, 2014
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