Overview

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.

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Author:   Christine Meklenborg Salvesen (University of Oslo) ,  Hans Petter Helland (University of Oslo)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   206
Weight:   0.735kg
ISBN:  

9789027255891

ISBN 10:   902725589
Pages:   315
Publication Date:   27 June 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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

Reviews

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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