8. Clitic doubling, agreement and information structure: The case of Albanian
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Dalina Kallulli
Abstract
Starting from the basic facts presented in Kallulli (2000) on clitic doubling in Albanian, the goals of the present paper are threefold: first, to provide additional arguments in favour of the view that clitic doubled direct object expressions are necessarily interpreted as topical (as opposed to focal) and that topichood – and more generally, information structure – is encoded in narrow syntax; secondly, to explain how several potentially problematic phenomena under this view, such as (apparent) clitic doubling of D-linked wh-phrases and certain asymmetries in the distribution of doubling clitics in restrictive relative clauses, can be solved without giving up the core idea that clitic doubling triggers a topical interpretation of the doublee; and thirdly, to provide a formal and uniform account of all patterns of clitic doubling found in Albanian.
Abstract
Starting from the basic facts presented in Kallulli (2000) on clitic doubling in Albanian, the goals of the present paper are threefold: first, to provide additional arguments in favour of the view that clitic doubled direct object expressions are necessarily interpreted as topical (as opposed to focal) and that topichood – and more generally, information structure – is encoded in narrow syntax; secondly, to explain how several potentially problematic phenomena under this view, such as (apparent) clitic doubling of D-linked wh-phrases and certain asymmetries in the distribution of doubling clitics in restrictive relative clauses, can be solved without giving up the core idea that clitic doubling triggers a topical interpretation of the doublee; and thirdly, to provide a formal and uniform account of all patterns of clitic doubling found in Albanian.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction: Clitic doubling, core syntax and the interfaces 1
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Part I. Clitic doubling within the Balkan Continuum: Rise and spread
- 1. Balkan object reduplication in areal and dialectological perspective 35
- 2. Towards grammaticalization of clitic doubling: Clitic doubling in Macedonian and neighbouring languages 65
- 3. The genesis of clitic doubling from Ancient to Medieval Greek 89
- 4. Clitic doubling and Old Bulgarian 105
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Part II. Discourse functional properties of clitic doubling
- 5. Romanian clitic doubling: A view from pragmatics-semantics and diachrony 135
- 6. Clitic doubling from Ancient to Asia Minor Greek 165
- 7. Object clitic doubling constructions and topicality in Bulgarian 203
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Part III. Morpho-syntactic properties and modelling of clitic doubling
- 8. Clitic doubling, agreement and information structure: The case of Albanian 227
- 9. Clitic reduplication constructions in Bulgarian 257
- 10. Clitic doubling, complex heads and interarboreal operations 289
- 11. Rethinking the Clitic Doubling parameter: The inverse correlation between clitic doubling and participle agreement 321
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Part IV. Clitic doubling within the DP
- 12. Romanian possessive clitics revisited 361
- 13. Possessive clitics in the DP: Doubling or dislocation? 389
- Name index 435
- Language index 437
- Subject index 439
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction: Clitic doubling, core syntax and the interfaces 1
-
Part I. Clitic doubling within the Balkan Continuum: Rise and spread
- 1. Balkan object reduplication in areal and dialectological perspective 35
- 2. Towards grammaticalization of clitic doubling: Clitic doubling in Macedonian and neighbouring languages 65
- 3. The genesis of clitic doubling from Ancient to Medieval Greek 89
- 4. Clitic doubling and Old Bulgarian 105
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Part II. Discourse functional properties of clitic doubling
- 5. Romanian clitic doubling: A view from pragmatics-semantics and diachrony 135
- 6. Clitic doubling from Ancient to Asia Minor Greek 165
- 7. Object clitic doubling constructions and topicality in Bulgarian 203
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Part III. Morpho-syntactic properties and modelling of clitic doubling
- 8. Clitic doubling, agreement and information structure: The case of Albanian 227
- 9. Clitic reduplication constructions in Bulgarian 257
- 10. Clitic doubling, complex heads and interarboreal operations 289
- 11. Rethinking the Clitic Doubling parameter: The inverse correlation between clitic doubling and participle agreement 321
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Part IV. Clitic doubling within the DP
- 12. Romanian possessive clitics revisited 361
- 13. Possessive clitics in the DP: Doubling or dislocation? 389
- Name index 435
- Language index 437
- Subject index 439
