A Usage-Based Perspective on Spanish Variable Clitic Placement

The Spanish pronominal clitic system

In this paper we present a model of the Spanish pronominal clitic system. We start with a review of the phenomenon, including simple and complex clitic climbing and the related phenomena of reflexives, and also the impersonal passive-reflexive and activeimpersonal forms. Then, we review the status of pronominal clitics and propose that it is a dual phenomenon: on the one hand, enclitics are inf...

Syntax-driven bindings of Spanish clitic pronoun

In this paper we present an analysis of the relationship between the Spanish clitic pronoun system and the Binding Theory. Spanish clitic pronouns have a dual behaviour; in the proclitic case, they behave like independent lexical units, hence proper clitic, but on the enclitic case they are hence morphological affixes (i.e. inflexions). In the first case, the clitics stand for pronouns, therefo...

Representing 2P Clitic Placement In LFG

Halpern (1995), King (1995), and others have adopted an attractive, economical analysis of 2P clitic placement in which the clitics are generated in a standard position, and moved by prosodic inversion (PrInv) only if there is not an adjacent host with suitable prosodic characteristics. However, expressing the analysis directly within the LFG syntactic formalism implies the use of rules that co...

La Quiero Ver~Quiero Verla: Monolingual and bilingual children's variable clitic placement

This study addresses whether/how monolingual and bilingual Spanish-speaking children differ in their acquisition of grammar by examining direct object clitics in contexts where either proclisis or enclisis is possible (Lo voy a ver vs. Voy a verlo). The current study examines variable clitic placement in sociolinguistic interviews conducted with 21 Spanish-English bilingual children of Mexican ...

Clitic placement in the Romanian verbal complex