Auxiliary verb constructions and clitic placement

Clitic Climbing in Polish Tense Auxiliary Constructions

The aim of this paper is to account for the behaviour of Polish pronom-inal clitics in tense auxiliary constructions. In particular, we discuss the phenomenon known as clitic climbing (CC) and provide its HPSG account. Unlike Romance or Germanic languages, Polish employs only one tense auxiliary verb by´c 'be'. The future tense of imperfective verbs is formed with the strong form of the auxilia...

Clitic Constructions

An analysis of French and Romance clitic constructions in simple clauses is proposed reconciling the two dominant approaches on this topic. This analysis treats them as involving both movement and base generation and, as part of a larger research program, assimilates the syntax of clitics to that of other functional heads. Accordingly, a clitic is analyzed as heading its own projection and as l...

Constructions License Verb Frames

Where does a verb’s frame come from? The obvious answer is the verb itself, and this is the answer that syntacticians have traditionally provided, whether they describe predicator-argument relations as syntactic sisterhood relations or as lexical properties (the predicator’s combinatoric potential, or valence). Thus, Haegeman, in her introduction to Government and Binding theory, states, “the t...

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...

Clitic placement in the Romanian verbal complex