Remnant Movement, Last Resort and Greed: A Minimalist Account of Bulgarian Clitics
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چکیده
The class of clitic elements cannot be defined based on immediately obvious syntactic properties. Clitics belong to different syntactic categories: pronouns, auxiliaries, and sentential particles with a range of functions. In contrast, all clitics fall into the phonological category of non-stressed elements. That is why their ordering has been traditionally viewed as a phonological phenomenon. Wackernagel’s law of second position claims that non-stressed elements agglomerate after the first prosodic constituent of the sentence, as in (1) (clitics in bold).
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