The Phonology and Syntax of Preverbal and Postverbal Subject Clitics in Northern Italian Dialects  

Oleh:

Cardinaletti, Anna ; Repetti, Lori

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistic Inquiry (ada di JSTOR) vol. 39 no. 4 (2008), page 523-563.
Topik: subject clitics; northern Italian dialects; clitic phonology; morphological epenthesis; clitic movement; verb movement
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We argue that preverbal and postverbal subject clitics in northern Italian dialects are the same lexical items. The different forms of proclitics and enclitics can be explained phonologically (i.e., by phonological constraints ranked in a particular order) and by the hypothesis that morphologically neutral vowels may be inserted in final position (what we call morphological epenthesis). The distributional differences in the paradigm derive from a competition between overt clitics and null subjects that is resolved in an intricate way across sentence types and across dialects and that depends on the interaction of clitic and verb movement and on Minimize Structure.

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