Chapter published in:
Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia
Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 252] 2018
► pp. 195–213

Chapter 13
Clitic stress allomorphy in Sardinian

| University of Ferrara
| University of Florence
Sardinian displays stress shifts under cliticisation with imperative and gerund verb forms. Stress shift is related to the type and number of clitics associated to the host. Across the range of dialectal variation, three different stress shift patterns are attested. We will argue that Sardinian data supports the approach whereby stress shift variation cannot be regarded either as the result of purely prosodic rules or as the consequence of different syntactic feature-checking properties of the clause. The analysis here proposed accounts for stress placement as an allomorphy that is partly determined by phonological conditions.
Keywords: clitics, allomorphy, stress shift, Sardinian
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Approaches to enclitic stress phenomena
    • 2.1Phonological analyses
    • 2.2The ‘weak-pronoun’ analysis
  • 3.Enclitic stress in Sardinian
    • 3.1General properties of lexical stress
    • 3.2Enclitic stress patterns
      • 3.2.1Logudorese
      • 3.2.2Transitional area
      • 3.2.3Campidanese
  • 4.Discussion
  • 5.A note on proclitic stress in Sardinian
  • 6.Conclusions
    • Acknowlegments
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 19 December 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.252.13baf
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