Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages

Editors

Dalina Kallulli | University of Vienna

Liliane Tasmowski | University of Antwerp & KVAB

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This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in Romance languages, with the Balkan patterns coming increasingly into focus. Since the mid-nineties, these patterns presented a variety of challenges to the generalisations reached on the basis of Romance, while also raising new research questions. The volume deals among other things with the following aspects of the phenomenon: its extension within and outside the Balkan Sprachbund and the observed variation; its realizational possibilities and the constraints on the status of the doubled DP (direct or indirect object, pronominal or non-pronominal); its semantics (definite, specific, presupposed, neither) and pragmatics (topic or not, D-linked or not); its temporal and locational genesis; the relationship between the clitic and its associate.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 130] 2008. ix, 442 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.130

Table of Contents

List of contributors | p. vii

Preface | p. ix

Introduction: Clitic doubling, core syntax and the interfaces

Dalina Kallulli and Liliane Tasmowski | pp. 1–32

Part I. Clitic doubling within the Balkan Continuum: Rise and spread

1. Balkan object reduplication in areal and dialectological perspective

Victor A. Friedman | pp. 35–63

2. Towards grammaticalization of clitic doubling: Clitic doubling in Macedonian and neighbouring languages

Olga Mišeska Tomić | pp. 65–87

3. The genesis of clitic doubling from Ancient to Medieval Greek

Gunnar de Boel | pp. 89–103

4. Clitic doubling and Old Bulgarian

Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Valentin Vulchanov | pp. 105–132

Part II. Discourse functional properties of clitic doubling

5. Romanian clitic doubling: A view from pragmatics-semantics and diachrony

Virginia Hill and Liliane Tasmowski | pp. 135–163

6. Clitic doubling from Ancient to Asia Minor Greek

Mark Janse | pp. 165–202

7. Object clitic doubling constructions and topicality in Bulgarian

Zlatka Guentchéva | pp. 203–223

Part III. Morpho-syntactic properties and modelling of clitic doubling

8. Clitic doubling, agreement and information structure: The case of Albanian

Dalina Kallulli | pp. 227–255

9. Clitic reduplication constructions in Bulgarian

Iliyana Krapova and Guglielmo Cinque | pp. 257–287

10. Clitic doubling, complex heads and interarboreal operations

Alexandra Cornilescu and Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin | pp. 289–319

11. Rethinking the Clitic Doubling parameter: The inverse correlation between clitic doubling and participle agreement

Vina Tsakali and Elena Anagnostopoulou | pp. 321–357

Part IV. Clitic doubling within the DP

12. Romanian possessive clitics revisited

Larisa Avram and Martine Coene | pp. 361–387

13. Possessive clitics in the DP: Doubling or dislocation?

Giuliana Giusti and Melita Stavrou | pp. 389–433

Name index | pp. 435–436

Language index | pp. 437–438

Subject index | pp. 439–442

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Subjects

Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Generative linguistics

Syntax

Main BIC Subject

CFK: Grammar, syntax

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2008019877 | Marc record