Clitics in the Languages of Europe
Clitics in the Languages of Europe

Author: Henk van Riemsdijk

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 1048

ISBN-13: 3110804018

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The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Clitics in the Languages of Europe
Clitics in the Languages of Europe

Author: Typology of Languages in Europe (Project)

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 1060

ISBN-13: 9783110157512

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The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Clitic Phenomena in European Languages
Clitic Phenomena in European Languages

Author: Frits Beukema

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2000-03-15

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9027299250

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This book is concerned with a number of central issues in the theory of clitics, a topic that has become much debated in recent years. Mainly written within a recent generative framework, its contrastive approach discusses these issues against the background of a number of European languages, among which the Balkan Slavic languages figure prominently. The question as to whether clitics are to be located in the syntax or in the phonology or in both is addressed in articles by Boškovič, Progovac and Franks, who also provides a thorough introductory essay to the volume. There are detailed studies on clitic behavior in Greek relative clauses (Alexiadou and Anagnostopolou), Bulgarian and English DPs (Dimitrova-Vulchanova), the various Romance languages (Franco), Slovene (Golden and Milojevič Sheppard), Albanian and Greek (Kallulli) and Macedonian (Tomič). Finally, the book contains a discourse-related description of clitic doubling in Balkan Slavic languages (Schick). The book should be of interest to any scholar, theoretical or descriptive, whose research touches upon the central phenomenon of cliticisation.

Italian Clitics
Italian Clitics

Author: Cinzia Russi

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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Main description: This book provides a comprehensive, primarily descriptive, investigation of important trends in the evolution of Italian object pronouns. It offers the first in-depth characterization of the most frequent verbi procomplementari, whose distinctive property is the complete incorporation of pronouns as grammatically and semantically obligatory elements.

Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe
Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe

Author: Typology of Languages in Europe (Project)

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 876

ISBN-13: 9783110157468

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This is part of a series of nine volumes publishing the results of the research project "Typology of Languages in Europe" (EUROTYP)--based on a 1988 workshop by the Standing Committee for the Humanities, the European Science Foundation, and involving participation by more than 100 linguists. The major goal of EUROTY was to study the cross-linguistic patterns and limitations of variation in nine focal areas: pragmatic organization of discourse, constituent order, subordination and complementation, adverbial constructions, tense and aspect, noun phrase structure, clitics, and word prosodic systems in the languages of Europe. This effort provided a testing ground for theoretical controversies and new theory development, as detailed here by a dozen contributors. Includes a language index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe
Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe

Author: Harry van der Hulst

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2008-08-22

Total Pages: 1085

ISBN-13: 3110197081

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The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

A Handbook of Slavic Clitics
A Handbook of Slavic Clitics

Author: Steven Franks

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0195135881

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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. The authors draw relevant generalizations across the Slavic languages and highlight the importance of these phenomena for linguistic theory.

Clitics
Clitics

Author: Andrew Spencer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-07-12

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0521682924

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In most languages we find 'little words' which resemble a full word, but which cannot stand on their own. Instead they have to 'lean on' a neighbouring word, like the 'd, 've and unstressed 'em of Kim'd've helped'em ('Kim would have helped them'). These are clitics, and they are found in most of the world's languages. In English the clitic forms appear in the same place in the sentence that the full form of the word would appear in but in many languages clitics obey quite separate rules of placement. This book is the first introduction to clitics, providing a complete summary of their properties, their uses, the reasons why they are of interest to linguists and the various theoretical approaches that have been proposed for them. The book describes a whole host of clitic systems and presents data from over 100 languages.

Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages
Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages

Author: Dalina Kallulli

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 902725513X

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This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in Romance languages, with the Balkan patterns coming increasingly into focus. Since the mid-nineties, these patterns presented a variety of challenges to the generalisations reached on the basis of Romance, while also raising new research questions. The volume deals among other things with the following aspects of the phenomenon: its extension within and outside the Balkan Sprachbund and the observed variation; its realizational possibilities and the constraints on the status of the doubled DP (direct or indirect object, pronominal or non-pronominal); its semantics (definite, specific, presupposed, neither) and pragmatics (topic or not, D-linked or not); its temporal and locational genesis; the relationship between the clitic and its associate.