Overview

This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in Romance languages, with the Balkan patterns coming increasingly into focus. Since the mid-nineties, these patterns presented a variety of challenges to the generalisations reached on the basis of Romance, while also raising new research questions. The volume deals among other things with the following aspects of the phenomenon: its extension within and outside the Balkan Sprachbund and the observed variation; its realizational possibilities and the constraints on the status of the doubled DP (direct or indirect object, pronominal or non-pronominal); its semantics (definite, specific, presupposed, neither) and pragmatics (topic or not, D-linked or not); its temporal and locational genesis; the relationship between the clitic and its associate.

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Author:   Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna) ,  Liliane Tasmowski (University of Antwerp & KVAB)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   130
Weight:   0.950kg
ISBN:  

9789027255136

ISBN 10:   902725513
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   12 November 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. List of contributors; 2. Preface; 3. Introduction: Clitic doubling, core syntax and the interfaces (by Kallulli, Dalina); 4. Part I. Clitic doubling within the Balkan Continuum: Rise and spread; 5. 1. Balkan object reduplication in areal and dialectological perspective (by Friedman, Victor A.); 6. 2. Towards grammaticalization of clitic doubling: Clitic doubling in Macedonian and neighbouring languages (by Miseska Tomic, Olga); 7. 3. The genesis of clitic doubling from Ancient to Medieval Greek (by Boel, Gunnar de); 8. 4. Clitic doubling and Old Bulgarian (by Dimitrova-Vulchanova, Mila); 9. Part II. Discourse functional properties of clitic doubling; 10. 5. Romanian clitic doubling: A view from pragmatics-semantics and diachrony (by Hill, Virginia); 11. 6. Clitic doubling from Ancient to Asia Minor Greek (by Janse, Mark); 12. 7. Object clitic doubling constructions and topicality in Bulgarian (by Guentcheva, Zlatka); 13. Part III. Morpho-syntactic properties and modelling of clitic doubling; 14. 8. Clitic doubling, agreement and information structure: The case of Albanian (by Kallulli, Dalina); 15. 9. Clitic reduplication constructions in Bulgarian (by Krapova, Iliyana); 16. 10. Clitic doubling, complex heads and interarboreal operations (by Cornilescu, Alexandra); 17. 11. Rethinking the Clitic Doubling parameter: The inverse correlation between clitic doubling and participle agreement (by Tsakali, Vina); 18. Part IV. Clitic doubling within the DP; 19. 12. Romanian possessive clitics revisited (by Avram, Larisa); 20. 13. Possessive clitics in the DP: Doubling or dislocation? (by Giusti, Giuliana); 21. Name index; 22. Language index; 23. Subject index

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