Chapter 4. Are Asturian clitics distinctly distinct?
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Guillermo Lorenzo
Abstract
This chapter is focused on an idiosyncratic feature of Asturian in the context of other neighboring Romance languages. In all these languages, the regular clitic forms for the third person dative and the third person accusative cannot cluster together; as a consequence, one or the other must be replaced by another item or they must fuse into a single form. In Asturian, however, clitics remain the same in that context. This chapter explores the thesis that such a state of affairs is due to the fact that the Asturian dative clitics incorporate the properties of a locative and justifies it historically.
Abstract
This chapter is focused on an idiosyncratic feature of Asturian in the context of other neighboring Romance languages. In all these languages, the regular clitic forms for the third person dative and the third person accusative cannot cluster together; as a consequence, one or the other must be replaced by another item or they must fuse into a single form. In Asturian, however, clitics remain the same in that context. This chapter explores the thesis that such a state of affairs is due to the fact that the Asturian dative clitics incorporate the properties of a locative and justifies it historically.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- List of reviewers ix
- Chapter 1. Northern soul 1
- Chapter 2. Asturian and Asturian Spanish at the syntax-phonology interface 15
- Chapter 3. Semantic anchoring 45
- Chapter 4. Are Asturian clitics distinctly distinct? 73
- Chapter 5. ¿Qué che femos con el che? 93
- Chapter 6. Pluractional perfects in Eonavian Spanish 109
- Chapter 7. Middle formation and inalienability in Asturian 131
- Chapter 8. Negation in Asturian 151
- Chapter 9. Intonational form and speaker belief in Mieres Asturian polar questions 173
- Chapter 10. Minority language bilingualism and its role in L3 lexical acquisition 195
- Index 217
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- List of reviewers ix
- Chapter 1. Northern soul 1
- Chapter 2. Asturian and Asturian Spanish at the syntax-phonology interface 15
- Chapter 3. Semantic anchoring 45
- Chapter 4. Are Asturian clitics distinctly distinct? 73
- Chapter 5. ¿Qué che femos con el che? 93
- Chapter 6. Pluractional perfects in Eonavian Spanish 109
- Chapter 7. Middle formation and inalienability in Asturian 131
- Chapter 8. Negation in Asturian 151
- Chapter 9. Intonational form and speaker belief in Mieres Asturian polar questions 173
- Chapter 10. Minority language bilingualism and its role in L3 lexical acquisition 195
- Index 217