Clitic placement in the Romanian verbal complex

Clitics and Clause Structure

In late Medieval Greek and many modern dialects, pronominal clitics are syntactically adjoined to an IP projection. In another set of dialects they have become syntactically adjoined to a verbal head. In the most innovating dialects (which include Standard Greek) they are agreement affixes. Extending the Fontana/Halpern clitic typology, we propose a trajectory of lexicalization from X clitics v...

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...

Topic-Focus Subjectivity within Verbal Complex Substructures on the Romanian Syntax-Prosody Interface

The main contributions enclosed within this paper refer to: (i) A general view on the syntax-prosody interface, the nonisomorphism between the two facets of the language being conjectured as a proper subsumption mapping between syntax and prosody; (ii) Implementation of the TopicFocus Articulation (TFA) algorithm for the Romanian sentence, with novelties on Intonational TFA and interrogative se...

Subjectification in the Development of Clitic Doubling: A Diachronic Study of Romanian and Spanish

Clitic doubling and differential object marking

This work follows the progression of a grammatical construction that unifies the Romanian accusative preposition pe with a coreferential pronominal clitic, together forming the cd-pe construction. On the basis of historical texts, it is argued that these two grammatical phenomena evolved into a clause-level construction with a dedicated semantics and pragmatics in the modern language. A corpus ...