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Chapter 1. Picard subject clitics

An analysis at the interface of syntax, phonology, and prosody
  • Julie Auger
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Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics
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Abstract

This paper argues that the analysis of Picard subject clitics and lexical subjects greatly benefits from considering syntax, phonology, and prosody. Specifically, the status of pronominal clitics as arguments or agreement markers must be determined on the basis of syntactic criteria, while the determination of their status as clitics or affixes necessitates phonological arguments. My analysis shows that Picard subject clitics behave like agreement markers but that they retain the status of clitics, thus providing evidence for the Clitic Group as proposed by Nespor & Vogel (1986). I also provide evidence that other grammatical monosyllables do not create clitic groups.

Abstract

This paper argues that the analysis of Picard subject clitics and lexical subjects greatly benefits from considering syntax, phonology, and prosody. Specifically, the status of pronominal clitics as arguments or agreement markers must be determined on the basis of syntactic criteria, while the determination of their status as clitics or affixes necessitates phonological arguments. My analysis shows that Picard subject clitics behave like agreement markers but that they retain the status of clitics, thus providing evidence for the Clitic Group as proposed by Nespor & Vogel (1986). I also provide evidence that other grammatical monosyllables do not create clitic groups.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. A. Interfaces
  6. Chapter 1. Picard subject clitics 11
  7. Chapter 2. A child’s view of Romance modification 35
  8. Chapter 3. Definite determiners in Romance 57
  9. B. Bridging issues at the CP-TP-vP levels
  10. Chapter 4. Differential object marking, oblique morphology, and enriched case hierarchies 81
  11. Chapter 5. A deletion account of referential null objects in Basque Spanish 97
  12. Chapter 6. Same EPP, different null subject type 111
  13. Chapter 7. On (un)grammatical sequences of se s in Spanish 127
  14. Chapter 8. On the interpretation of the Spanish 1st person plural pronoun 143
  15. C. Bridging issues at the PP-DP levels
  16. Chapter 9. French ne … que exceptives in prepositional contexts 163
  17. Chapter 10. Interpreting reduplicated numerals in Old Ibero-Romance 177
  18. Chapter 11. Value and cardinality in the evaluation of bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese 193
  19. Chapter 12. Formality by distance in Spanish and Catalan 207
  20. D. Bridging issues in linguistics
  21. Chapter 13. Cyclical change in affixal negation 225
  22. Chapter 14. Code-mixing and semantico-pragmatic resources in francophone Maine 243
  23. Chapter 15. Exceptionality and ungrammaticality in Spanish stress 257
  24. Index 273
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.360.01aug

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. A. Interfaces
  6. Chapter 1. Picard subject clitics 11
  7. Chapter 2. A child’s view of Romance modification 35
  8. Chapter 3. Definite determiners in Romance 57
  9. B. Bridging issues at the CP-TP-vP levels
  10. Chapter 4. Differential object marking, oblique morphology, and enriched case hierarchies 81
  11. Chapter 5. A deletion account of referential null objects in Basque Spanish 97
  12. Chapter 6. Same EPP, different null subject type 111
  13. Chapter 7. On (un)grammatical sequences of se s in Spanish 127
  14. Chapter 8. On the interpretation of the Spanish 1st person plural pronoun 143
  15. C. Bridging issues at the PP-DP levels
  16. Chapter 9. French ne … que exceptives in prepositional contexts 163
  17. Chapter 10. Interpreting reduplicated numerals in Old Ibero-Romance 177
  18. Chapter 11. Value and cardinality in the evaluation of bare singulars in Brazilian Portuguese 193
  19. Chapter 12. Formality by distance in Spanish and Catalan 207
  20. D. Bridging issues in linguistics
  21. Chapter 13. Cyclical change in affixal negation 225
  22. Chapter 14. Code-mixing and semantico-pragmatic resources in francophone Maine 243
  23. Chapter 15. Exceptionality and ungrammaticality in Spanish stress 257
  24. Index 273
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