Diego Pescarini

Romance Object Clitics

Microvariation and Linguistic Change

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the development of object clitic pronouns in the Romance languages, drawing on data from Latin, medieval vernaculars, modern Romance languages, and lesser-known dialects. It offers new analyses of well-known phenomena such as interpolation, clitic climbing, enclisis/proclisis alternations, V2 syntax, and stylistic fronting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780198864387
• ISBN-10: 0198864388
• Artikelnr.: 60550894

Autorenporträt

Diego Pescarini is a permanent researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Nice and teaches syntax at the Université Côte d'Azur. He has previously held research and teaching appointments at the Universities of Zurich, Frankfurt, Bristol, and Padua, where he obtained his PhD in Linguistics. His research focuses on Romance comparative syntax and his work has been published in journals such as Probus, Linguistic Inquiry, and Vox Romanica. He is the co-editor, with Roberta D'Alessandro, of Advances in Italian Dialectology: Sketches of Italo-Romance Grammars (Brill 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Setting the Scene
1: Properties of Romance object clitics
2: Theoretical preliminaries
3: Historical overview
Part II: Deficiency
4: Syntactic evidence against deficiency
5: Morphophonological evidence against deficiency
Part III: The Emergence of Clitics
6: Clitics in embryo
7: The rise of ad-verbal clitics
Part IV: Early Romance
8: 'V2' and clitic placement
9: Deriving enclisis in 'V1' clauses
Part V: Towards Microvariation
10: Clitic climbing
11: Clitic combinations
12: Conclusions