A Lexical Approach to Italian Cliticization - Brossura

Monachesi, Paola

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1575861089 ISBN 13: 9781575861081

Casa editrice: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1999

Riassunto

This volume examines the behavior of clitics both in Italian and in certain southern Italian dialects in order to show that, even within a single language, clitics exhibit different properties. Monachesi argues against the existence of a special class 'clitics' whose elements exhibit variable behavior. Instead, she decomposes and assimilates their properties to those of well established categories. Motivations are thus provided for treating Italian object clitics as affixes. It is shown that both their morphosyntactic and their phonological behavior argue in favor of this assumption. Under this view, a lexicalist analysis is proposed which takes into account the phonological, morphological, and syntactic properties of Italian clitics.

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Descrizione del libro

This volume examines the behavior of clitics both in Italian and in certain southern Italian dialects in order to show that, even within a single language, clitics exhibit different properties.

Contenuti

1. Introduction; 2. The framework; 3. The status of Italian clitics; 4. The analysis of Italian clitics; 5. The analysis of si and loro 6. The analysis of Italian clitic climbing.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1575861089
• ISBN 13: 9781575861081
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 264
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