Clitic Climbing, the Raising-Control Dichotomy and Diaphasic Variation in Croatian

Clitic climbing in Romance: "Restructuring", causatives, and object-control verbs

"Restructuring" in Romance refers to constructions which appear to violate Standard locality constraints, thereby presenting a challenge for syntactic theory. One of the most well-studied cases of restructuring is that of clitic climbing. This is illustrated in the Italian example (la), in which the clitic lo, the apparent object of leggere, appears on the higher verb vuole. As shown in (lb), i...

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 Climbing and Tense Auxiliaries in Polish and Romance

The aim of this paper is to compare the behaviour of Polish and Romance pronominal clitics in tense auxiliary constructions and to account for Polish facts. First, we present the system of Polish auxiliaries, briefly comparing it to Romance. Then, we discuss clitic climbing (CC), the phenomenon well-known in Romance. We contrast Polish CC with CC in Italian and French. Finally, we present a for...

Object clitics and clitic climbing in Italian HPSG grammar

Delayed Tree-Locality, Set-locality, and Clitic Climbing

Since Bleam's (2000) initial claim that capturing clitic climbing patterns in Romance requires the descriptive power of set-local MCTAG (Weir, 1988), alternative approaches to relaxing tree-locality restrictions have been developed, including delayed tree-local MCTAG (Chiang and Scheffler, 2008), which, unlike set-local MCTAG, is weakly equivalent to standard TAG. This paper compares 2-delayed ...