“Clitic third” in Croatian

Ćavar, Damir; Wilder, Chris

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“…movement of the NP out of the PP, followed by fronting of the PP. This is in fact what Franks & Progovac (1994) assume (see also Abels 2003a, Ć avar & Wilder 1999, Franks 1998, and Schu¨tze 1996 (79) [ PP U veliku t i ] j on ude t j sobu i .…”

Section: Extraordinary Left Branch Extractionmentioning

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On the locality of left branch extraction and the structure of NP*

Bošković¹

2005

Studia Linguistica

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bstract. The paper considers several accounts of crosslinguistic variation regarding left branch extraction (LBE), focusing on adjectival LBE, and explores consequences of a proper analysis of LBE for the internal structure of NP. Two lines of research are pursued, both of which are based on the claim that languages that allow adjectival LBE do not have DP. One is based on the phase-based locality system, extending the phase system from clauses to NPs, and the other one is based on the existence of crosslinguistic variation regarding the position of adjectives in the traditional NP, with some languages having the traditional NP-over-AP structure, others having Abney's AP-over-NP structure. Which structure a language has is argued to depend on the presence/absence of DP in the language, the lack of DP leading to the NP-over-AP structure. Under this analysis, the ban on AP LBE in English-type languages follows from the ban on movement of non-constituents, a problem that does not arise in languages that allow AP LBE. The impossibility of LBE of AP in the presence of another AP in languages that in principle allow such extraction is argued to provide evidence that adjectives are located in multiple specifiers of the same head. This paper examines the phenomenon of left branch extraction (LBE), focusing on adjectival LBE, and explores consequences of a proper analysis of LBE for the internal structure of NP, in particular, the structural position of AP. I pursue two lines of research, both of which are based on the claim that languages that allow LBE of adjectives do not have DP. One is based on the phase-based locality system, extending the phase-based locality system from clauses to NPs, and the other one is based on the existence of crosslinguistic variation regarding the position of adjectives in the traditional NP, with some languages having the traditional NP-over-AP structure, others having Abney's (1987) AP-over-NP structure. Although there are reasons to favor the latter analysis, ultimately I will not be able to provide a completely conclusive way of teasing apart the alternative analyses. In this respect, the paper reflects our present understanding of the phenomenon of LBE, which is currently too rudimentary to put us in a *This material was presented at the

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Section: Extraordinary Left Branch Extractionmentioning

confidence: 68%

On the locality of left branch extraction and the structure of NP*

Bošković¹

2005

Studia Linguistica

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“…(12b) shows that -uh does not attach to the right edge of a topicalized phrase (here a PP), but rather to its head, splitting the constituent into two parts (similar to the Wackernagel clitics found in Serbo-Croatian, cf. Zec & Inkelas 1990, Schütze 1994, Cavar & Wilder 1999. 5 Thus, the correct generalization seems to be that -uh attaches to a fronted verb or to the leftmost head of a topicalized phrase (cf.…”

Section: The Coordinating Particle -Uhmentioning

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On the historical core of V2 in Germanic

Fuß¹

2003

Nord J Linguist

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This paper focuses on the origin of the V2 property in the history of Germanic. Considering data from Gothic and Old English (OE), it is suggested that the historical core of the V2 phenomenon reduces to V-to-C movement that is triggered in operator contexts. Therefore, the historical system shares basic properties with limited V2 in Modern English. It is shown that apparent deviations from this pattern that can be observed in Gothic can be attributed to the influence of Greek word order. Concerning the apparently more elaborate V2 properties of OE, it is claimed that a large part of them in fact do not involve a Spec-head relation, but rather result from linear adjacency between the clause-initial element and a finite verb located in T 0 . Special attention is paid to the placement of pronominal subjects in OE, which are claimed to occupy SpecTP. This contrasts with a lower position of full subjects due to the absence of an EPP in OE. Finally, the loss of superficial V2 orders in the Middle English period is attributed to the development of an EPP feature in T.

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“…However, both prosodic and syntactic principles are relevant for the characterisation of clitic placement, as claimed inHalpern (1992),Bo»ković (1995Bo»ković ( , 2000 andZec & Inkelas (1990). Clitics are thus a prime case of an interface phenomenon : analyses which are purely syntactic(Progovac 1996, Wilder & Ć avar 1994, Ć avar & Wilder 1999, or those that are purely prosodic(Radanović-Kocić 1996), fail to capture all relevant aspects of this complex phenomenon (for arguments, see Bo»ković 2000).…”

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Prosodic differences among function words

Zec

2005

Phonology

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Function words in standard Serbian fall into two classes: prosodically free functional elements on the one hand, and prosodically bound functional elements, or clitics, on the other. The two classes have overlapping syntactic distributions, yet exhibit clear prosodic differences. Free functional elements may become prosodic words if they are minimally disyllabic, or if focused, and in this they crucially differ from clitics, whose only prosodic option is to be included into the host prosodic word. It is argued that the prosodic properties of the two classes of function words cannot be captured by a single set of ranked constraints, and that one of the classes, the class of clitics, needs to be encoded lexically, by virtue of prosodic prespecification.

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“Clitic third” in Croatian

Cited by 13 publications

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On the locality of left branch extraction and the structure of NP*

On the locality of left branch extraction and the structure of NP*

On the historical core of V2 in Germanic

Prosodic differences among function words

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