Chapter 17. Object clitics for subject clitics in Francoprovençal and Piedmontese
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Ian Roberts
Abstract
This article illustrates and analyses the intricate phenomenon of OCL-for-SCL, found in certain varieties of Franco-Provençal Valdôtain and Piedmontese. This phenomenon, which at first sight appears highly unusual, reflects operations of morphophonological realisation of the kind developed in the context of the theory of Distributed Morphology such as fission and fusion, amply attested elsewhere in the world’s languages. In a further section, the contexts for enclisis to past participles are discussed. Following Roberts (2016), this leads to the proposal of the implicational scale ‘complement to restructuring verb > complement to auxiliary > complement to causative’. This can be described this in terms of degrees of ‘transparency’ which in turn may translate into structural ‘size’.
Abstract
This article illustrates and analyses the intricate phenomenon of OCL-for-SCL, found in certain varieties of Franco-Provençal Valdôtain and Piedmontese. This phenomenon, which at first sight appears highly unusual, reflects operations of morphophonological realisation of the kind developed in the context of the theory of Distributed Morphology such as fission and fusion, amply attested elsewhere in the world’s languages. In a further section, the contexts for enclisis to past participles are discussed. Following Roberts (2016), this leads to the proposal of the implicational scale ‘complement to restructuring verb > complement to auxiliary > complement to causative’. This can be described this in terms of degrees of ‘transparency’ which in turn may translate into structural ‘size’.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Structuring thought, externalizing structure 1
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Part I. Micro‑ and macro-variation in syntax
- Chapter 2. Gender, number and inflectional class in some Northern Italian dialects 31
- Chapter 3. Objects and subjects in the left periphery 57
- Chapter 4. Notes on infinitival relatives in Italian 73
- Chapter 5. Negation and negative copulas in Bantu 85
- Chapter 6. On gender and number 97
- Chapter 7. Micro‑ and macro-variation 111
- Chapter 8. Concealed pseudo-clefts? Evidence from a Lombard dialect 121
- Chapter 9. Negation patterns across dialects 133
- Chapter 10. A note on left-peripheral maps and interface properties 149
- Chapter 11. Italian faire -infinitives 161
- Chapter 12. Optional vs obligatory movement in Albanian (pseudo)-raising constructions 177
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Part II. Clitics and pronouns from a theoretical perspective
- Chapter 13. Clitic stress allomorphy in Sardinian 195
- Chapter 14. Clitics and vowel epenthesis 215
- Chapter 15. Overabundance in Hungarian accusative pronouns 223
- Chapter 16. Unstable personal pronouns in Northern Logudorese 241
- Chapter 17. Object clitics for subject clitics in Francoprovençal and Piedmontese 257
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Part III. Sound pattern and syntactic structure
- Chapter 18. Are Sardinian vocatives perfectly regular? 271
- Chapter 19. Phonological correlates of syntactic structure 283
- Chapter 20. Metaphony as magnetism 297
- Chapter 21. Some reflections on the syllabification of clusters 307
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Part IV. Language in context
- Chapter 22. Diachronic and synchronic lexical interactions in the Italo-Balkan linguistic space 323
- Chapter 23. Lexical-semantic analysis of the political language 337
- Chapter 24. Dialects and neuroscience 351
- Chapter 25. Remarks on the vulnerability of grammar 365
- Chapter 26. Some Celto-Albanian isoglosses and their implications 379
- Subject index 391
- Language index 393
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Structuring thought, externalizing structure 1
-
Part I. Micro‑ and macro-variation in syntax
- Chapter 2. Gender, number and inflectional class in some Northern Italian dialects 31
- Chapter 3. Objects and subjects in the left periphery 57
- Chapter 4. Notes on infinitival relatives in Italian 73
- Chapter 5. Negation and negative copulas in Bantu 85
- Chapter 6. On gender and number 97
- Chapter 7. Micro‑ and macro-variation 111
- Chapter 8. Concealed pseudo-clefts? Evidence from a Lombard dialect 121
- Chapter 9. Negation patterns across dialects 133
- Chapter 10. A note on left-peripheral maps and interface properties 149
- Chapter 11. Italian faire -infinitives 161
- Chapter 12. Optional vs obligatory movement in Albanian (pseudo)-raising constructions 177
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Part II. Clitics and pronouns from a theoretical perspective
- Chapter 13. Clitic stress allomorphy in Sardinian 195
- Chapter 14. Clitics and vowel epenthesis 215
- Chapter 15. Overabundance in Hungarian accusative pronouns 223
- Chapter 16. Unstable personal pronouns in Northern Logudorese 241
- Chapter 17. Object clitics for subject clitics in Francoprovençal and Piedmontese 257
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Part III. Sound pattern and syntactic structure
- Chapter 18. Are Sardinian vocatives perfectly regular? 271
- Chapter 19. Phonological correlates of syntactic structure 283
- Chapter 20. Metaphony as magnetism 297
- Chapter 21. Some reflections on the syllabification of clusters 307
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Part IV. Language in context
- Chapter 22. Diachronic and synchronic lexical interactions in the Italo-Balkan linguistic space 323
- Chapter 23. Lexical-semantic analysis of the political language 337
- Chapter 24. Dialects and neuroscience 351
- Chapter 25. Remarks on the vulnerability of grammar 365
- Chapter 26. Some Celto-Albanian isoglosses and their implications 379
- Subject index 391
- Language index 393