Chapter 1. Clitics and syntactic dependencies

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Chapter 1
Clitics and syntactic dependencies

Published online: 10 February 2023

Article outline

1.Clitics in Language and linguistics
- 1.1Defining clitics
- 1.2Types of clitics
- 1.3Approaches to clitics
2.Basic facts about Serbian clitics
- 2.1Overview of the Serbian clitic system
  - 2.1.1Inventory of Serbian 2P clitics
  - 2.1.2Cliticization
  - 2.1.3Linearization of Serbian 2P clitics
    - 2.1.3.1Building the clitic cluster
    - 2.1.3.2Positioning the clitic cluster in the clause/phrase
- 2.2Other Slavic clitic systems
  - South Slavic
  - West Slavic
  - East Slavic
- 2.3Serbian clitics in scholarly literature
3.Basic notions of dependency representation relevant for describing clitics
- 3.1Meaning-text linguistic models
  - 3.1.1The input for clitic placement operations: Surface-syntactic representation
  - 3.1.2The output of clitic placement operations: Deep-morphological representation
  - 3.1.3Rules carrying out clitic placement operations
- 3.2Synthetizing Serbian sentences with clitics: An illustration
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