Reflexive verbs and the restructuring of clitic clusters
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Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
Abstract
In Old French, all clitic clusters containing objects observed the order ACC–DAT. During the 15th and 16th centuries this order was changed into DAT–ACC in cases where objects of the 1st and 2nd person were involved. This change took place rather abruptly. In this paper I will argue that increased use of reflexive forms provoked a change in the order in these clitic clusters. More specifically, I will argue that clusters involving 1st and 2nd person argumental clitics form true clusters in Modern French (in the sense of Pescarini (2012)), whereas they formed split clusters in the old language.
Abstract
In Old French, all clitic clusters containing objects observed the order ACC–DAT. During the 15th and 16th centuries this order was changed into DAT–ACC in cases where objects of the 1st and 2nd person were involved. This change took place rather abruptly. In this paper I will argue that increased use of reflexive forms provoked a change in the order in these clitic clusters. More specifically, I will argue that clusters involving 1st and 2nd person argumental clitics form true clusters in Modern French (in the sense of Pescarini (2012)), whereas they formed split clusters in the old language.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Why challenging clitics? 1
- Enclisis at the syntax-PF interface 27
- Clisis revisited 55
- Handling Wolof clitics in LFG 87
- Clitic placement and grammaticalization in Portuguese 119
- Diachronic source of two cliticization patterns in Slavic 135
- The Freezing Principle in Hungarian polarity, non-polarity and multiple wh -questions 159
- Pronominal markers in Cajun French 187
- The morphosyntax of -nde and post-verbal clitics in Cypriot Greek 209
- Acquisition of Italian object clitics by a trilingual child 233
- Clitic clusters in early Italo-Romance and the syntax/phonology interface 255
- Reflexive verbs and the restructuring of clitic clusters 283
- Language index 311
- Subject index 313
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Why challenging clitics? 1
- Enclisis at the syntax-PF interface 27
- Clisis revisited 55
- Handling Wolof clitics in LFG 87
- Clitic placement and grammaticalization in Portuguese 119
- Diachronic source of two cliticization patterns in Slavic 135
- The Freezing Principle in Hungarian polarity, non-polarity and multiple wh -questions 159
- Pronominal markers in Cajun French 187
- The morphosyntax of -nde and post-verbal clitics in Cypriot Greek 209
- Acquisition of Italian object clitics by a trilingual child 233
- Clitic clusters in early Italo-Romance and the syntax/phonology interface 255
- Reflexive verbs and the restructuring of clitic clusters 283
- Language index 311
- Subject index 313
