Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Why challenging clitics?: Some introductory remarks (by Meklenborg Salvesen, Christine); 3. Enclisis at the syntax-PF interface (by Mavrogiorgos, Marios); 4. Clisis revisited: Root and embedded contexts in Western Iberian (by Fernandez-Rubiera, Francisco Jose); 5. Handling Wolof clitics in LFG (by Bamba Dione, Cheikh); 6. Clitic placement and grammaticalization in Portuguese (by Sandalo, Filomena); 7. Diachronic source of two cliticization patterns in Slavic (by Migdalski, Krzysztof); 8. The Freezing Principle in Hungarian polarity, non-polarity and multiple wh-questions (by Dalmi, Grete); 9. Pronominal markers in Cajun French (by Girard, Francine Alice); 10. The morphosyntax of -nde and post-verbal clitics in Cypriot Greek (by Pavlou, Natalia); 11. Acquisition of Italian object clitics by a trilingual child: Acquisition of Italian object clitics (by Khachaturyan, Elizaveta); 12. Clitic clusters in early Italo-Romance and the syntax/phonology interface (by Pescarini, Diego); 13. Reflexive verbs and the restructuring of clitic clusters (by Meklenborg Salvesen, Christine); 14. Language index; 15. Subject index
