The Syntax of Pronominal Clitics.

Intro -- SYNTAX and SEMANTICS: VOLUME 19 -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. THE SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE OF CLITIC CONSTRUCTIONS -- Three Issues in the Theory of Clitics: Case, Doubled NPs, and Extraction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The 'Clitic ... NP*' Pair -- 3. Clitic Doubling -- Clitics in Yoruba -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Structure of Clitic Configurations -- 3. Coreference -- 4. Conclusion -- On Chain Formation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chains and the θ-Criterion -- 3. Anaphoric Clitics and Derived Subjects -- 4. Small Clauses -- 5. Must Antecedents Asymmetrically c-Command Anaphors? -- 6. Do Traces Require "Designated Antecedents"? -- On the Derivation of en-Clitics -- 1. Introduction: The Base-Generation of Clitics -- 2. Case Theory and en-Cliticization -- 3. Moving en -- 4. Conditions: Application or Representation -- 5. Consequences and Conclusions -- Cliticization from NPs in Czech and Comparable Phenomena in French and Italian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some Descriptive Notes on Czech Clitics -- 3. Cliticization from NPs in Czech -- 4. Conclusions -- PART II. CLITICIZATION, AFFIXATION, AND ARGUMENT STRUCTURE -- Pronominal Clitic Clusters and Templates -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Template Morphology -- 3. Pronominal Clitic Clusters -- 4. 'Simple' versus 'Special' Clitics and Lexical Fusion -- 5. Conclusion -- Syntactic Cliticization and Lexical Cliticization: The Case of Hebrew Dative Clitics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ethical, Possessive, Reflexive: Characteristics -- 3. Some Morphological Implications -- 4. Dative Constructions: Analysis -- 5. Conclusion -- The Interpretation and Acquisition of Italian Impersonal Si -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Morphology of Si -- 3. On Certain Differences between the Impersonal and Middle Si Constructions -- 4. The Acquisition of Word-Formation Rules -- 5. Conclusion -- On Italian Si -- 1. Introduction.

2. Impersonal Si -- 3. Reflexive Si -- 4. Impersonal and Reflexive Si Unified -- 5. The Other Si's -- On Some Properties of French Clitic Se -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Different Roles of Se -- 3. A Unified Account of Se -- 4. The Middle Voice Construction in Icelandic -- 5. Reflexive versus Nonreflexive Clitics -- 6. R-Clitics and Derived Subjects -- 7. Conclusion -- Clitics in American Sign Language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pronominal Proclitics -- 3. Pronominal Enclitics -- 4. Conclusion -- PART III. SUBJECT CLITICS -- The Pronominal "Copula" as Agreement Clitic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some Data -- 3. The Structure of Nominal Sentences -- 4. The Nature of Pron -- 5. Referring Predicates -- 6. The Interaction of Pron with Pronominal Subjects -- 7. Against the Analysis of Pron as V -- 8. Against the Left-Dislocation Analysis -- 9. Conclusion -- Subject Clitics and the NOM-Drop Parameter -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Problem: Italian versus French -- 3. Trentino -- 4. Portuguese -- 5. Analysis -- 6. Extensions -- References -- Index.

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