A Handbook of Slavic Clitics

by Franks, Steven; King, Tracy Holloway

• ISBN13: 9780195117127
• ISBN10: 0195117123
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Clitics are grammatical elements that are treated as independent words in syntax but form a phonological unit with the word that precedes or follows it. This volume brings together the facts about clitics in the Slavic languages, where they have become a focal points of recent research. Theauthors draws relevant generalizations across the Slavic languages and highlight the importance of these phenomena for linguistic theory.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations and Tables	xiii
Introduction	3	(12)
Overview of This Volume	3	(1)
Some Basic Facts and Questions	4	(4)
Prosodic issues	4	(2)
Morphosyntactic status	6	(2)
Clitic Types in Slavic	8	(4)
Verbal auxiliary clitics	8	(1)
Pronominal clitics	8	(1)
Other clausal domain clitics	9	(2)
Other clitic-like elements	11	(1)
Contents and Issues Addressed	12	(3)
Description of part I	12	(1)
Description of part II	12	(1)
Description of part III	13	(2)
I Major Slavic Clitic Phenomena	15	(188)
South Slavic	17	(73)
Serbian/Croatian	17	(14)
Verbal auxiliary clitics	18	(5)
Pronominal clitics	23	(2)
Other clitics	25	(3)
Placement and ordering	28	(2)
Summary	30	(1)
Slovenian	31	(17)
Verbal auxiliary clitics	31	(3)
Pronominal clitics	34	(3)
Other clitics	37	(2)
Placement and ordering	39	(9)
Summary	48	(1)
Bulgarian	48	(19)
Verbal auxiliary clitics	49	(2)
Pronominal clitics	51	(7)
Other clitics	58	(2)
Placement and ordering	60	(6)
Summary	66	(1)
Macedonian	67	(23)
Verbal auxiliary clitics	68	(2)
Pronominal clitics	70	(5)
Other clitics	75	(6)
Placement and ordering	81	(7)
Summary	88	(2)
West Slavic	90	(97)
Czech	90	(31)
Verbal auxiliary clitics	91	(6)
Pronominal clitics	97	(4)
Other clitics	101	(3)
Placement and ordering	104	(16)
Summary	120	(1)
Slovak	121	(18)
Verbal auxiliary clitics	121	(2)
Pronominal clitics	123	(3)
Other clitics	126	(3)
Placement and ordering	129	(10)
Summary	139	(1)
Polish	139	(23)
Verbal auxiliary clitics	140	(9)
Pronominal clitics	149	(3)
Other clitics	152	(4)
Placement and ordering	156	(6)
Summary	162	(1)
Sorbian	162	(25)
Verbal auxiliary clitics	164	(5)
Pronominal clitics	169	(6)
Other clitics	175	(2)
Placement and ordering	177	(8)
Summary	185	(2)
East Slavic	187	(16)
Russian	187	(6)
Interrogative, conditional, and negative clitics	188	(5)
Other clitics	193	(1)
Ukrainian and Belarusian	193	(8)
The literary languages	194	(2)
Dialects, with particular reference to Hucul	196	(5)
Summary	201	(2)
II Selected Problems	203	(82)
Patterns in the Ordering of Clitics	205	(11)
Internal Organization of the Clitic Cluster	205	(2)
Ordering of the Pronominal Clitics	207	(1)
Reflexive Clitics	208	(3)
Third Person Auxiliary Clitics	211	(4)
The right periphery phenomenon	211	(2)
Other idiosyncrasies	213	(2)
Summary	215	(1)
The Position of the Clitic Cluster	216	(34)
Wackernagel Position Clitics	217	(17)
Basic second-position facts	217	(2)
Second position in Serbian/Croatian	219	(3)
Verb-initial clauses	222	(3)
Deviation from strict second position	225	(9)
Strictly Verb-Adjacent Clitics	234	(7)
Preverbal position	236	(2)
Postverbal position	238	(3)
Clitic Climbing	241	(7)
Summary	248	(2)
Clitic Doubling	250	(9)
The Phenomenon of Clitic Doubling	250	(2)
Semantic Licensing	252	(2)
Specificity	252	(1)
Topicality	253	(1)
Syntactic Analyses	254	(4)
Clitics as arguments	255	(1)
Clitics as agreement	256	(2)
Summary	258	(1)
Other Clausal Domain Clitic	259	(14)
Interrogatives	259	(8)
Constituent questions	259	(2)
Yes-no questions in li	261	(6)
by/bi Modals and Clitics	267	(3)
Interactions with Negation	270	(2)
Summary	272	(1)
The Nominal Domain	273	(12)
Pronominal Clitics inside NPs	273	(5)
Macedonian and Bulgarian	274	(3)
Polish	277	(1)
The Status of Postpositive Demonstratives	278	(6)
Summary	284	(1)
III Theory and Analyses	285	(92)
Survey of Recent Analyses	287	(24)
Purely Prosodic Accounts	287	(4)
Nonderivational Accounts	291	(2)
Purely Syntactic Accounts	293	(12)
Verb-adjacent clitics	295	(2)
Polish	297	(1)
Second-position clitics	298	(7)
Mixed Accounts	305	(5)
Prosodic Inversion	306	(1)
PF filtering	307	(3)
Summary	310	(1)
Slavic Clitics as Heads	311	(38)
X0 vs. Xmax	312	(3)
Clitic Locations	315	(5)
Verb-adjacent clitics	315	(3)
Second-position clitics	318	(2)
Clitic Cluster Formation	320	(18)
The templatic solution	321	(1)
A syntactic approach	322	(8)
Some problems for syntactic clustering	330	(8)
Nonclustering Clitics	338	(2)
Some Compromises	340	(9)
Linearization	341	(1)
Delayed pronunciation	342	(4)
Morphological manipulations	346	(3)
Apparent Last-Resort Effects	349	(22)
Interrogative li	349	(8)
The special status of li	350	(1)
Bulgarian and Macedonian	351	(4)
Russian	355	(2)
Split NP and PP Constructions	357	(5)
The significance of split constructions	358	(3)
An integrated analysis	361	(1)
Long Head Movement	362	(8)
A Prosodic Inversion analysis	365	(2)
Syntactic analyses	367	(2)
PF mapping	369	(1)
Summary	370	(1)
Summary	371	(6)
Clitics as Functional Heads	371	(2)
The Nature of Variation	373	(1)
The Prosody/Syntax Interaction	374	(3)
Bibliography	377	(16)
Subject Index	393	(6)
Name Index	399