Second-Position Clitics and Prosodic Recursion

Second Position Clitics and Monadic Second-Order Transduction

The simultaneously phonological and syntactic grammar of second position clitics is an instance of the broader problem of applying constraints across multiple levels of linguistic analysis. Syntax frameworks extended with simple tree transductions can make efficient use of these necessary additional forms of structure. An analysis of Sahidic Coptic second position clitics in a context-free gram...

Roumyana Pancheva the Rise and Fall of Second-position Clitics

Historical accounts of the phenomenon of cliticization have previously documented only the loss of second-position clitics. This paper argues that the history of Bulgarian offers evidence for the rise of a second-position clitic system. It is demonstrated that the second-position clitics of Old Bulgarian were not directly inherited from IndoEuropean, but emerged from a system of post-verbal cli...

Linear Placement of Clitics and Syntactic Dependencies (Serbian Second-Position Clitics)

Описывается линейное размещение клитик второй позиции в литературном сербском языке. Расстановка клитик рассматривается с точки зрения языкового синтеза, т.е. в направлении от смысла к тексту. Теоретической основой работы является модель Смысл-Текст, в первую очередь – принятые с этой модели зависимостный подход к синтаксической структуре. Предлагается набор правил для синтеза сербских предложе...

An A-Morphous Account of Tagalog Second Position Clitics

Position of Polish Clitics: An HPSG Approach

The aim of this paper is to provide an HPSG analysis of linear positions of Polish pronominal clitics. The distribution of Polish clitics, though rather free, is more constrained than that of other NPs. Polish clitics either occur preverbally or must closely follow the verb. We treat all Polish pronominal clitics as syntactic items and propose an LP constraint to account for their distribution....