On clitics in Baltic

Basque clitics in morphosyntax*

This paper addresses the question of φ -feature marking in Basque. Basque finite verbs display an uncommonly large number of morphemes which covary with the φ -features of the absolutive, ergative, and dative arguments as well as (in some dialects) the gender of the addressee. Recent work (Preminger 2009; Arregi & Nevins 2012) has addressed the question of how these morphemes are derived. In ta...

Clitics in Dependency Morphology

Clitics are challenging for many theories of grammar because they straddle syntax and morphology. In most theories, cliticization is considered a phrasal phenomenon: clitics are affix-like expressions that attach to whole phrases. Constituency-based grammars in particular struggle with the exact constituent structure of such expressions. This paper proposes a solution based on catena-based depe...

Clitics in Slavic

0. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 2 1. Some general thoughts on Slavic clitics ..................................................................................... 3 2. Second position clitics ..........................................................................................

A note on Basque vocative clitics

This article proposes an analysis of “allocutive” morphemes in Basque, which are taken to be a species of vocative expression. This article focuses on two properties of vocative clitics: the fact that their morpheme order inside the auxiliary is sensitive to ergative person; and the way vocative clitics condition exponence of auxiliary roots. These reflect the first-merged position of vocative ...

On the representation of Italian clitics