Clitics In Greek

Author : Marios Mavrogiorgos
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255433

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Clitics in Greek by Marios Mavrogiorgos Pdf

This monograph investigates the morpho-syntactic and other properties of clitic pronouns in Greek and offers a grammar of proclisis and enclisis in light of Chomsky s (1995, 2001a, 2005) Minimalist Program. It explores the nature of clitics as syntactic topicalizers which are probed by structurally higher verbal heads to which they move and into which they incorporate morpho-syntactically. A theory is advanced according to which cliticization derives from syntactic agreement between (the phi-features of) a clitic pronoun and a phase head, v* in the case of proclisis and CM in the case of enclisis. Incorporation of the clitic into its host is argued to depend on two factors, i.e. the fact that the clitic only contains a subset of the features of its host, and the fact that the edge of the host is accessible. Also, the syntax of strong pronouns and their relation to clitics, of negated imperatives, of surrogate imperatives and of free clitic ordering in Greek enclisis are also discussed. This monograph would appeal to syntacticians and morphologists as well as to those interested in Greek and more generally in clitic syntax."

Author : David Goldstein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004250680

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Classical Greek Syntax by David Goldstein Pdf

This monograph offers a novel analysis of Greek clause structure on the basis of second-position clitics.

Author : P. Pappas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230504714

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Variation and Morphosyntactic Change in Greek by P. Pappas Pdf

This book deals with some of the major theoretical and descriptive concerns of the historical linguist. The author presents a variationist analysis of weak object pronoun placement in Greek during a transitional period of the language when these elements exhibited both clitic-like and affix-like behaviour. The statistical analysis of the data, providing the first accurate description of the pattern of variation, is used in showing that existing accounts fall short of a full explanation. An alternative approach forces re-evaluation of the role of generalizations in linguistic explanation.

Author : Frits H. Beukema,Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027227519

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Clitic Phenomena in European Languages by Frits H. Beukema,Marcel den Dikken Pdf

This book is concerned with a number of central issues in the theory of clitics, a topic that has become much debated in recent years. Mainly written within a recent generative framework, its contrastive approach discusses these issues against the background of a number of European languages, among which the Balkan Slavic languages figure prominently. The question as to whether clitics are to be located in the syntax or in the phonology or in both is addressed in articles by Boškovi?, Progovac and Franks, who also provides a thorough introductory essay to the volume. There are detailed studies on clitic behavior in Greek relative clauses (Alexiadou and Anagnostopolou), Bulgarian and English DPs (Dimitrova-Vulchanova), the various Romance languages (Franco), Slovene (Golden and Milojevi? Sheppard), Albanian and Greek (Kallulli) and Macedonian (Tomi?). Finally, the book contains a discourse-related description of clitic doubling in Balkan Slavic languages (Schick). The book should be of interest to any scholar, theoretical or descriptive, whose research touches upon the central phenomenon of cliticisation.

Author : Henk van Riemsdijk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110804010

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Clitics in the Languages of Europe by Henk van Riemsdijk Pdf

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Author : Joel A. Nevis,Brian D. Joseph,Dieter Wanner,Arnold M. Zwicky
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027276650

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Clitics by Joel A. Nevis,Brian D. Joseph,Dieter Wanner,Arnold M. Zwicky Pdf

This bibliography provides an alphabetical listing of over 1500 articles, books, and dissertations that treat in some way the topic of clitics and related matters, e.g. affixes, words, word order, movement, sandhi, etc. The beginning point for the bibliographic entries is 1892, taking Jacob Wackernagel's classic work as the point of departure, and the entries cover the subsequent 100-year period. Each entury is accompanied by a series of descriptors which give an indication of the content of the item. Nearly one-third of the book is a detailed analytic index, based on the descriptors, which can aid in topical searches for relevant material. Prefatory matter includes an essay “What is a Clitic?” by Arnold M. Zwicky, a brief consideration of Wackernagel's scholarly career by Brian D. Joseph, and information on the format and use of the book itself.

Author : Aaron Halpern
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1881526607

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On the Placement and Morphology of Clitics by Aaron Halpern Pdf

Using data from a variety of languages, this book investigates the place of clitics in the theory of language structure, and their implications for the relationships between syntax, morphology and phonology. It is argued that the least powerful theory of language requires us to recognise at least two classes of clitics, one with the syntax of independent phrases and the other with the syntax of inflectional affixes. It is also argued that prosodic conditions may influence the surface position of clitics beyond what may be accomplished by filtering potential syntactic structures. Finally, the relationship between syntactic, morphological, and phonological constituents within wordlike elements is explored.

Author : Kleanthes K. Grohmann,Theoni Neokleous
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443857406

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Developments in the Acquisition of Clitics by Kleanthes K. Grohmann,Theoni Neokleous Pdf

The present volume presents new theoretical and empirical findings on the acquisition and development of clitics in and across different languages. It features ten chapters that largely emerged from the CYCL1A Workshop on the Acquisition of Clitics held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in May 2012. These chapters explore issues pertaining to the first (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition of clitic pronouns. There is an emphasis on Greek, with the first four chapters discussing mono- and bilingual acquisition of clitics in Cypriot Greek and the next two chapters on Standard Modern Greek. Three contributions focus on Albanian, Serbo-Croatian, and European Portuguese, respectively. The last chapter of this volume is an invited contribution by Ken Wexler on the Unique Checking Constraint as an explanation of clitic omission in normal and SLI development. This volume will constitute a valuable reference guide for current work on the acquisition of clitic pronouns.

Author : Michalis Georgiafentis,Giannoula Giannoulopoulou,Maria Koliopoulou,Angeliki Tsokoglou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350079205

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Contrastive Studies in Morphology and Syntax by Michalis Georgiafentis,Giannoula Giannoulopoulou,Maria Koliopoulou,Angeliki Tsokoglou Pdf

Using different theoretical approaches and frameworks, this book addresses a broad range of themes in contrastive linguistics, including inflection, derivation and compounding, tense, wh-questions, post-verbal subjects, focus and clitics, among others. Comparing English, German, Greek, Romance, Slavic and South Pacific languages, the book highlights the significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description and general interface issues, casting light on contrasts between languages at the levels of morphology and syntax. In this respect, it makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of language typology and language universals.

Author : Dalina Kallulli,Liliane Tasmowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289896

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Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages by Dalina Kallulli,Liliane Tasmowski Pdf

This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in Romance languages, with the Balkan patterns coming increasingly into focus. Since the mid-nineties, these patterns presented a variety of challenges to the generalisations reached on the basis of Romance, while also raising new research questions. The volume deals among other things with the following aspects of the phenomenon: its extension within and outside the Balkan Sprachbund and the observed variation; its realizational possibilities and the constraints on the status of the doubled DP (direct or indirect object, pronominal or non-pronominal); its semantics (definite, specific, presupposed, neither) and pragmatics (topic or not, D-linked or not); its temporal and locational genesis; the relationship between the clitic and its associate.

Author : Birgit Gerlach,Janet Grijzenhout
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299192

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Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax by Birgit Gerlach,Janet Grijzenhout Pdf

This book contains fourteen articles that reflect current ideas on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of clitics. It covers the forms and functions of clitics in various typologically diverse languages and presents data from, e.g. European Portuguese, Macedonian, and Yoruba. It extensively deals with the prosodic structure of clitics, their morphological status, clitic placement, and clitic doubling. The form and behavior of clitics with respect to tonal phenomena and in verse are discussed in two articles (Akinlabi & Liberman, Reindl & Franks). Other articles address the prosodic representation of clitics in Irish (Green), the differences in the acquisition of clitics and strong pronouns in Catalan (Escobar & Gavarro), the similarities between clitics and affixes or words in Romance and Bantu languages (Cocchi, Crysmann, Monachesi, Ortman & Popescu), the semantics of clitics in the Greek DP and in Spanish doubling (Alexiadou & Stavrou, Uriagereka), and complex problems concerning verbal clitics in Romanian and Balkan languages (Legendre, Spencer, Tomic).

Author : A. Alexiadou,G.C. Horrocks,Melita Stavrou
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401591775

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Studies in Greek Syntax by A. Alexiadou,G.C. Horrocks,Melita Stavrou Pdf

This volume contains thirteen studies on various aspects of Greek syntax, as well as a general introduction by the editors. In recent years, the study of Greek has become important for the development of generative theory. The various contributions to this volume demonstrate clearly how much the field of Greek syntax has grown both in range and depth. The topics investigated include the phrase structure of clauses and nominal phrases, clitics in standard Greek and in dialects, the licensing of negative polarity items, the nature of sentential operators, control, argument structure and compounds. The studies highlight the importance of Greek for the development of a satisfactory theory of comparative syntax.

Author : Panayiotis A. Pappas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349511870

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Variation and Morphosyntactic Change in Greek by Panayiotis A. Pappas Pdf

Author : Pilar Larranaga,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110238815

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Pronouns and Clitics in Early Language by Pilar Larranaga,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Pdf

Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make them different from personal pronouns. This book focuses on the acquisition of personal and demonstrative pronouns as well as clitics with respect to determinative phrases in a variety of languages of the Romance family and several indigenous languages, such as Quechua. A particularly original aspect of the present volume is that it not only addresses syntactic issues, but also semantic and pragmatic questions that have been widely neglected in the literature. It also reports on acquisition data of languages, such as Quechua, which have not attracted the attention of researchers until very recently.

Author : Marie-Hélène Côté,Eric Mathieu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269164

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Variation within and across Romance Languages by Marie-Hélène Côté,Eric Mathieu Pdf

This volume is a selection of twenty peer-reviewed articles first presented at the 41st annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), held at the University of Ottawa in 2011. They are thematically linked by a broad notion of variation across languages, dialects, speakers, time, linguistic contexts, and communicative situations. Furthermore, the articles address common theoretical and empirical issues from different formal, experimental, or corpus-based perspectives. The languages analyzed belong to the main members of the Romance family, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Ladin, Italian, Sardinian, and Romanian, and a variety of topics across a wide spectrum of linguistic subfields, from phonetics to semantics, as well as historical linguistics, bilingualism and second-language learning, is covered. By illustrating the richness and complementarity of subjects, methods, and theoretical frameworks explored within Romance linguistics, significant contributieons are made to both the documentation of Romance languages and to linguistic theory.