An emergentist view on functional classes

Pescarini, Diego

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“…27), where the Dat-RWP occurs between the main verb and the Acc-RWP. Besides, Pescarini (2019) points to empirical data featuring interpolation phenomena also in enclitic contexts.…”

Section: Clitic Climbingmentioning

confidence: 91%

How weak are Romanian clitic pronouns?

Gerstenberger

2022

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In traditional linguistics, pronouns are divided into two classes: those that can bear word stress, coined strong, full or tonal, and those that can not, coined weak, clitic, or atonal. However, in the last decades, research on this topic showed that items generally labeled as clitics are by far more complex. Between words and affixes, these hybrid linguistic entities challenge both description and modeling. As for Romanian, the debate on weak (i.e., clitic) pronouns was dominated by the question about their categorial status: are these items clitics or affixes? In this article, we present and scrutinize different approaches that support the claim that there is a difference between proclitics and enclitics, i.e., between clitics occurring before vs. after the verb. Since Romanian features a full-fledged pronominal system with different deficiency degrees, we evaluate these claims against it. We show that all these approaches manifest basic deficiencies.

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“…27), where the Dat-RWP occurs between the main verb and the Acc-RWP. Besides, Pescarini (2019) points to empirical data featuring interpolation phenomena also in enclitic contexts.…”

Section: Clitic Climbingmentioning

confidence: 91%

How weak are Romanian clitic pronouns?

Gerstenberger

2022

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“…Despite this crucial difference in their distribution, all clitic forms have been traditionally analysed as agreement markers realised on T, playing a role comparable to that of verbal morphology (see in particular Poletto 1993particular Poletto , 2000. While this analysis could be maintained for second person singular, more recent studies have challenged the agreement nature of third person clitics (Pescarini 2020;Schaefer 2020;Frasson 2021), evidencing their pronominal behaviour. The distribution of Venetan third person subject clitics resembles that of French subject clitics, which have been analysed as reduced pronouns ('weak pronouns', in the classification presented in Cardinaletti and Starke 1999) since the seminal works by Kayne (1975Kayne ( , 1983.…”

Section: The Syntax Of the Subject In Venetan Varietiesmentioning

confidence: 94%

Structural Change in Relative Clauses and the Autonomy of Heritage Grammars

Frasson

2022

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This paper addresses the question of structural change in relative clauses in heritage speakers of two varieties of Venetan, a northern Italo-Romance language. It will be shown that appositive and restrictive relative clauses are not structurally distinguished in Brazilian Venetan, while they display different structural properties in Italian Venetan. It will be proposed that the phenomenon described in the paper does not depend on transfer from another language and it is not exclusively a matter of processing. The approach presented here aims to account for structural change in syntactic terms, without resorting to extra-linguistic factors. Heritage grammars are autonomous systems and follow predictable paths of language variation, as such, variation may take place at an interface level and at a syntactic level alike. This does not exclude possible influences from the dominant language, which, however, do not need to be taken as the only triggers of change.

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“…One first piece of evidence against an analysis of subject clitics as pure agreement markers comes from a constraint on doubling in Venetan. Pescarini (2020) shows that the distribution of subject clitics in Venetan is not that of obligatory agreement markers, but of pronouns. As already noticed by Benincà (1994), Venetan subject clitics do not double a DP subject when this is postverbal (9)a) and they optionally double a preverbal subject (9)b):…”

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confidence: 96%

“…However, as shown by heritage Venetan subject clitics, phonological deficiency does not necessarily imply interpretive or syntactic deficiency, challenging the notion of classes of pronouns presented in Cardinaletti and Starke (1999). See also Manzini (2014) and Pescarini (2020) for similar proposals against a rigid classification of pronouns.…”

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The syntax of subject pronouns in heritage languages

Frasson¹

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List of abbreviations xiiiChapter 1. Introduction 1.1. Heritage languages and contact 1.2. How to analyse contact-induced change in Italo-Romance varieties 1.2.1. Feature-reassembly and the bottleneck hypothesis 1.2.2. Subject pronouns: simplification, stability and complexification 1.3. Information structure and syntax: two approaches 1.3.1. The cartographic approach to the left periphery 1.3.2. Towards a feature-based approach 1.3.3. Beyond C: discourse features in v and D 1.4. Research questions and structure of the dissertation 1.4.1. Research questions 1.4.2. Chapter outline Chapter 2. Referentiality and the internal structure of subject pronouns 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Null and overt subjects: an overview 2.3. The internal structure of pronouns 2.3.1. Introducing the [R] feature 2.4. The interpretation of null and overt subjects: topic, linking and logophoricity

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An emergentist view on functional classes

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

How weak are Romanian clitic pronouns?

How weak are Romanian clitic pronouns?

Structural Change in Relative Clauses and the Autonomy of Heritage Grammars

The syntax of subject pronouns in heritage languages

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