Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction: Clitic doubling, core syntax and the interfaces 1
6. Part I. Clitic doubling within the Balkan Continuum: Rise and spread
7. 1. Balkan object reduplication in areal and dialectological perspective 35
8. 2. Towards grammaticalization of clitic doubling: Clitic doubling in Macedonian and neighbouring languages 65
9. 3. The genesis of clitic doubling from Ancient to Medieval Greek 89
10. 4. Clitic doubling and Old Bulgarian 105
11. Part II. Discourse functional properties of clitic doubling
12. 5. Romanian clitic doubling: A view from pragmatics-semantics and diachrony 135
13. 6. Clitic doubling from Ancient to Asia Minor Greek 165
14. 7. Object clitic doubling constructions and topicality in Bulgarian 203
15. Part III. Morpho-syntactic properties and modelling of clitic doubling
16. 8. Clitic doubling, agreement and information structure: The case of Albanian 227
17. 9. Clitic reduplication constructions in Bulgarian 257
18. 10. Clitic doubling, complex heads and interarboreal operations 289
19. 11. Rethinking the Clitic Doubling parameter: The inverse correlation between clitic doubling and participle agreement 321
20. Part IV. Clitic doubling within the DP
21. 12. Romanian possessive clitics revisited 361
22. 13. Possessive clitics in the DP: Doubling or dislocation? 389
23. Name index 435
24. Language index 437
25. Subject index 439