Cliticization, Movement, and Second Position
Author : Ethelbert E. Kari
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Degama language
ISBN :
Aspects of the Theory of Clitics
Author : Stephen Anderson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191535559
Book Description
This is the first book to cover the grammar of clitics from all points of view, including their phonology and syntax and relation to morphology. In the process, it deals with the relation of second position clitics to verb-second phenomena in Germanic and other languages, the grammar of contracted auxiliary verbs in English, noun incorporation constructions, and several other much discussed topics in grammar. Stephen Anderson includes analyses of a number of particular languages, and some of these - such as Kwakw'ala (“Kwakiutl”) and Surmiran Rumantsch - are based on his own field research. The study of clitics has broad implications for a general understanding of sentence structure in natural language. Stephen Anderson's clearly-written, wide-ranging, and original account will be of wide interest to scholars and advanced students of phonology, morphology, and syntax.
What Do Second Position Cliticization, Scrambling and Multiple Wh-fronting Have in Common?
Author : Sandra Stjepanović
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Serbo-Croatian language
ISBN :
Book Description
Clitics, Pronouns and Movement
Author : James R. Black
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 1997-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027275998
Book Description
The introduction to this volume by Anders Holmberg provides a reflection on movement in the light of recent developments in Minimalist theory. His discussion of the theories of category versus feature movement in terms of displacement and copying, provides the background for 12 papers dealing with clitics, pronouns and movement in variety of language families. Articles on Romance include papers on the genitive clitic in Andean Spanish, proclitic groups and word order in Caribbean Spanish, overt pronouns and empty categories in Brazilian Portuguese, the clitic en in Catalan, and clitic doubling in Romanian. Papers on Germanic discuss movement of verbal complements in Dutch and German, analyses of English finite auxiliaries in syntax and phonology, and complementizers in dialects of German in a reiterative syntax analysis. Other articles deal with object shift in Serbo-Croatian, operator-bound clitics in Niuean, a serial verb analysis of the ba construction in Mandarin Chinese, and experiencer verbs in Japanese.
Agreement and Head Movement
Author : Ian G. Roberts
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 026251432X
Book Description
An argument that, contrary to Chomsky, head-movement is part of the narrow syntax.
Challenging Clitics
Author : Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027271941
Book 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.
Remnant Raising and VSO Clausal Architecture
Author : Felicia Lee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 2006-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402043082
Book Description
San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec, an endangered and little-examined indigenous language of Mexico, shows a range of syntactic and morphological phenomena incompatible with standard Minimalist accounts of verb movement. This work proposes a VP-remnant raising account for these phenomena, motivated by Kayne’s (1992) antisymmetry program. The book also examines the consequences of phrasal remnant movement for negation constructions, and the interpretation of tense, aspect, and mood.
Clitic Phenomena in European Languages
Author : Frits H. Beukema
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027227515
Book Description
This book is concerned with a number of central issues in the theory of clitics, a topic that has become much debated in recent years. Mainly written within a recent generative framework, its contrastive approach discusses these issues against the background of a number of European languages, among which the Balkan Slavic languages figure prominently. The question as to whether clitics are to be located in the syntax or in the phonology or in both is addressed in articles by Bokovi?, Progovac and Franks, who also provides a thorough introductory essay to the volume. There are detailed studies on clitic behavior in Greek relative clauses (Alexiadou and Anagnostopolou), Bulgarian and English DPs (Dimitrova-Vulchanova), the various Romance languages (Franco), Slovene (Golden and Milojevi? Sheppard), Albanian and Greek (Kallulli) and Macedonian (Tomi?). Finally, the book contains a discourse-related description of clitic doubling in Balkan Slavic languages (Schick). The book should be of interest to any scholar, theoretical or descriptive, whose research touches upon the central phenomenon of cliticisation.
A Handbook of Slavic Clitics
Author : Steven Franks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2000-03-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199729425
Book Description
Clitics are grammatical elements that are treated as independent words in syntax but form a phonological unit with the word that precedes or follows it. This volume brings together the facts about clitics in the Slavic languages, where they have become a focal points of recent research. The authors draw relevant generalizations across the Slavic languages and highlight the importance of these phenomena for linguistic theory.
Parameters in Old French Syntax: Infinitival Complements
Author : E.H. Pearce
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 1990-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0792304330
Book Description
1.1. AIMS AND ASSUMPTIONS This book presents an analysis of infinitival complement constructions in Old French (OF) from the perspective of the Government-Binding (GB) framework. It aims, therefore, to establish within the terms of the GB framework just how the OF constructions are to be characterized and in just what sense they can or cannot be compared with the corresponding constructions in other Romance languages. The GB framework is an articulated theory about the structure of language which is based on the view that the aim of research into language is to construct a description of language which accurately reflects its essential nature. Whilst we know that individual languages may appear to be superficially very different, we also know that all languages are capable of expressing complex concepts and that all children acquire mastery of the language or languages to which they are exposed. The task, therefore, is to determine both the properties which languages have in common and the bounds within which they may differ. In the pursuit of these aims, the study of various languages of the Romance family has provided a rich source of material for the develop ment of the descriptive apparatus. Evidence of the contribution supplied by such work is apparent in references to Romance material in Chomsky (1981, 1982), in volumes such as Jaeggli (1982), Rizzi (1982a), Kayne (1984b), Burzio (1986), and in numerous papers devoted to particular constructions in a variety of Romance languages.
