A Lexical Approach to Italian Cliticization (Volume 84) (Lecture Notes) - Hardcover

Monachesi, Paola

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1575861097 ISBN 13: 9781575861098

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1999

Synopsis

This volume examines the behavior of clitics both in Italian and in certain southern Italian dialects in order to show that, even within a single language, clitics exhibit different properties. Monachesi argues against the existence of a special class 'clitics' whose elements exhibit variable behavior. Instead, she decomposes and assimilates their properties to those of well established categories. Motivations are thus provided for treating Italian object clitics as affixes. It is shown that both their morphosyntactic and their phonological behavior argue in favor of this assumption. Under this view, a lexicalist analysis is proposed which takes into account the phonological, morphological, and syntactic properties of Italian clitics.

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Book Description

This volume examines the behavior of clitics both in Italian and in certain southern Italian dialects in order to show that, even within a single language, clitics exhibit different properties.

About the Author

Paola Monachesi is a researcher at the Netherlands Organization for Scientic Research (NWO) located at Utrecht University in The Netherlands.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1575861097
• ISBN 13: 9781575861098
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256