5. Clitic pronouns
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David Heap
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the rather heterogeneous category of pronominal clitics in a range of Romance languages from a morpho-syntactic perspective. We describe the shapes of Romance clitic paradigms, including distinctions of person, number, gender, case, and animacy, as well as markedness restrictions and syncretism. Different types of clisis, clitic placement, and alternations between proclisis and enclisis, as well as allomorphic variations and clitic clusters are all placed in their theoretical contexts. In addition to considering clitic ordering with finiteness and their distribution in different types of clauses, we examine the distinction between clitic / weak pronoun / strong pronoun and present a typology of Romance subject clitics, including expletives and partial subject paradigms.
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the rather heterogeneous category of pronominal clitics in a range of Romance languages from a morpho-syntactic perspective. We describe the shapes of Romance clitic paradigms, including distinctions of person, number, gender, case, and animacy, as well as markedness restrictions and syncretism. Different types of clisis, clitic placement, and alternations between proclisis and enclisis, as well as allomorphic variations and clitic clusters are all placed in their theoretical contexts. In addition to considering clitic ordering with finiteness and their distribution in different types of clauses, we examine the distinction between clitic / weak pronoun / strong pronoun and present a typology of Romance subject clitics, including expletives and partial subject paradigms.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Manuals of Romance Linguistics V
- Table of Contents VII
- Abbreviations XI
- 1. Introduction 1
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The verbal domain
- 2. Subjects 27
- 3. Objects 89
- 4. Argument structure and argument structure alternations 154
- 5. Clitic pronouns 183
- 6. Voice and voice alternations 230
- 7. Auxiliaries 272
- 8. Causative and perception verbs 299
- 9. Copular and existential constructions 332
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The clausal and sentential domains
- 10. Infinitival clauses 369
- 11. Tense, aspect, mood 397
- 12. Negation and polarity 449
- 13. Dislocations and framings 472
- 14. Focus Fronting 502
- 15. Cleft constructions 536
- 16. Interrogatives 569
- 17. Exclamatives, imperatives, optatives 603
- 18. Coordination and correlatives 647
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The nominal domain
- 19. Gender and number 691
- 20. Determination and quantification 727
- 21. Adjectival and genitival modification 771
- 22. Relative clauses 804
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Typological aspects
- 23. Syntheticity and Analyticity 839
- 24. Basic constituent orders 887
- List of Contributors 933
- Index 941
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Manuals of Romance Linguistics V
- Table of Contents VII
- Abbreviations XI
- 1. Introduction 1
-
The verbal domain
- 2. Subjects 27
- 3. Objects 89
- 4. Argument structure and argument structure alternations 154
- 5. Clitic pronouns 183
- 6. Voice and voice alternations 230
- 7. Auxiliaries 272
- 8. Causative and perception verbs 299
- 9. Copular and existential constructions 332
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The clausal and sentential domains
- 10. Infinitival clauses 369
- 11. Tense, aspect, mood 397
- 12. Negation and polarity 449
- 13. Dislocations and framings 472
- 14. Focus Fronting 502
- 15. Cleft constructions 536
- 16. Interrogatives 569
- 17. Exclamatives, imperatives, optatives 603
- 18. Coordination and correlatives 647
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The nominal domain
- 19. Gender and number 691
- 20. Determination and quantification 727
- 21. Adjectival and genitival modification 771
- 22. Relative clauses 804
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Typological aspects
- 23. Syntheticity and Analyticity 839
- 24. Basic constituent orders 887
- List of Contributors 933
- Index 941
