Chapter 7. Parameters of clitic combination
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M. Pilar Colomina
Abstract
This chapter presents the restrictions and alterations that object clitics show when they are combined (forming a ‘clitic cluster’) in different varieties of Spanish, Catalan and Aragonese. As it is well-known, the combination of a third person accusative clitic and a third person dative clitic is rejected [in these varieties]. The relevant point that I will explore is that there is, in fact, variation in the way that languages avoid these ungrammatical sequences. To show this, I consulted different databases that describe this combination (grammars, atlases and corpora). Furthermore, I offer a proposal that accounts for these restrictions, building on the conclusions presented in Colomina (2020).
Abstract
This chapter presents the restrictions and alterations that object clitics show when they are combined (forming a ‘clitic cluster’) in different varieties of Spanish, Catalan and Aragonese. As it is well-known, the combination of a third person accusative clitic and a third person dative clitic is rejected [in these varieties]. The relevant point that I will explore is that there is, in fact, variation in the way that languages avoid these ungrammatical sequences. To show this, I consulted different databases that describe this combination (grammars, atlases and corpora). Furthermore, I offer a proposal that accounts for these restrictions, building on the conclusions presented in Colomina (2020).
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Section I. Dialectology
- Chapter 1. The syntactic tradition in the Spanish linguistic atlases 15
- Chapter 2. Using linguistic atlases to explore syntactic issues 35
- Chapter 3. The negative expressions in three dialectal repertoires 77
- Chapter 4. A microsyntactic study of Pyrenean negative emphatic polarity particles with the help of data from linguistic atlases 109
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Section II. Current perspectives on variation
- Chapter 5. Syntactic features and dialect areas in European Spanish 149
- Chapter 6. Feature analysis of neuter gender in Spanish and Asturian languages 175
- Chapter 7. Parameters of clitic combination 203
- Chapter 8. Gerund structures in Ecuadorian Spanish 225
- Chapter 9. On the role of prosody in wh -in-situ 263
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Section III. New tools to approach syntactic variation
- Chapter 10. ASinEs 297
- Chapter 11. The Corpus del español del siglo XXI ( CORPES XXI ) 319
- Chapter 12. Using Twitter to build a corpus for linguistic variation 347
- Language index 381
- Subject index 383
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Section I. Dialectology
- Chapter 1. The syntactic tradition in the Spanish linguistic atlases 15
- Chapter 2. Using linguistic atlases to explore syntactic issues 35
- Chapter 3. The negative expressions in three dialectal repertoires 77
- Chapter 4. A microsyntactic study of Pyrenean negative emphatic polarity particles with the help of data from linguistic atlases 109
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Section II. Current perspectives on variation
- Chapter 5. Syntactic features and dialect areas in European Spanish 149
- Chapter 6. Feature analysis of neuter gender in Spanish and Asturian languages 175
- Chapter 7. Parameters of clitic combination 203
- Chapter 8. Gerund structures in Ecuadorian Spanish 225
- Chapter 9. On the role of prosody in wh -in-situ 263
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Section III. New tools to approach syntactic variation
- Chapter 10. ASinEs 297
- Chapter 11. The Corpus del español del siglo XXI ( CORPES XXI ) 319
- Chapter 12. Using Twitter to build a corpus for linguistic variation 347
- Language index 381
- Subject index 383
