On second position clitics crosslinguistically
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Željko Bošković
Abstract
This paper examines factors that are responsible for the availability of second position clitic systems crosslinguistically based on a variety of unrelated languages, including (but not limited to) Pama-Nyungan, Uto-Aztecan, Iranian, Slavic, and Romance languages. The proposed account has consequences for a variety of phenomena, including the Lobeck (1990)/Saito & Murasugi (1990) generalization that functional heads can license ellipsis of their complement only when they undergo Spec-Head agreement, preposition-stranding, and the licensing of pro.
Abstract
This paper examines factors that are responsible for the availability of second position clitic systems crosslinguistically based on a variety of unrelated languages, including (but not limited to) Pama-Nyungan, Uto-Aztecan, Iranian, Slavic, and Romance languages. The proposed account has consequences for a variety of phenomena, including the Lobeck (1990)/Saito & Murasugi (1990) generalization that functional heads can license ellipsis of their complement only when they undergo Spec-Head agreement, preposition-stranding, and the licensing of pro.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction with a state of the art in generative Slovenian syntax 1
- On second position clitics crosslinguistically 23
- Participles come back to Slovenian 55
- Restructuring restructuring 69
- Clitics are/become Minimal(ist) 91
- The left periphery of Slovenian relative clauses 129
- Unaccusatives in Slovenian from a cross-linguistic perspective 145
- The modal cycle vs. negation in Slovenian 167
- The left periphery of multiple wh-questions in Slovenian 193
- A relative syntax and semantics for Slovenian 221
- The Slovenian future auxiliary biti as a tenseless gradable evidential modal 253
- Not two sides of one coin 283
- Quo vadis, Slovenian bipartite pronouns? 313
- Language index 329
- Subject index 331
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction with a state of the art in generative Slovenian syntax 1
- On second position clitics crosslinguistically 23
- Participles come back to Slovenian 55
- Restructuring restructuring 69
- Clitics are/become Minimal(ist) 91
- The left periphery of Slovenian relative clauses 129
- Unaccusatives in Slovenian from a cross-linguistic perspective 145
- The modal cycle vs. negation in Slovenian 167
- The left periphery of multiple wh-questions in Slovenian 193
- A relative syntax and semantics for Slovenian 221
- The Slovenian future auxiliary biti as a tenseless gradable evidential modal 253
- Not two sides of one coin 283
- Quo vadis, Slovenian bipartite pronouns? 313
- Language index 329
- Subject index 331
