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• Title: Clitic Climbing and Restructuring with "Finite Clause" and Infinitive Complements *.
• Author : Journal of Slavic Linguistics
• Release Date : January 01, 2004
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 274 KB

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Abstract. The paper highlights several prominent aspects of pronominal clitics in Balkan Slavic. Having pointed out that, originally, the pronominal clitics of all the South Slavic languages were underlying arguments, which in surface structure appeared in second position, the author posits a common South-Slavic underlying structure, in which the pronominal clitics are derived in head-positions of KP phrases, from where they move to the second-position clitic-cluster. In Macedonian and Bulgarian, the KPs are subsequently replaced by DPs and the pronominal clitics come to be generated as heads of AgrO and AgrIO. In clitic-doubling structures, they check the features of the XP *s with which they associate, the checking being done by raising the XPs to the specifiers of the phrases projected by the clitics. While in most European languages the pronominal clitics occur in either second or pre-verbal position, the Macedonian pronominal clitics occur in either, the type of clitichood following from the morphological features of the head of the clause. In imperative clauses, the pronominal clitics of all the South Slavic languages are, however, enclitic. The fact that the behaviour of the Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian pronominal clitics, does not change when the mood of the clause is changed, can be explained through the assumption that Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian have weak Mood operators--whatever rules apply for the derivation of indicative clauses with clitics, also apply for the derivation of imperative clauses with clitics. The behaviour of the Macedonian and Bulgarian pronominal clitics in negative imperative clauses can also be explained through the strength of an operator--the Neg operator. The position of the Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian negation operator relative to the verb and the pronominal clitics can, however, be accounted for if one assumes that the phonologically deficient negation operator and the verb form a negative verb in the lexicon.

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