Chapter 17
Object clitics for subject clitics in Francoprovençal and Piedmontese
This article illustrates and analyses the intricate phenomenon of OCL-for-SCL, found in certain varieties of Franco-Provençal Valdôtain and Piedmontese. This phenomenon, which at first sight appears highly unusual, reflects operations of morphophonological realisation of the kind developed in the context of the theory of Distributed Morphology such as fission and fusion, amply attested elsewhere in the world’s languages. In a further section, the contexts for enclisis to past participles are discussed. Following Roberts (2016), this leads to the proposal of the implicational scale ‘complement to restructuring verb > complement to auxiliary > complement to causative’. This can be described this in terms of degrees of ‘transparency’ which in turn may translate into structural ‘size’.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.More data
- 3.Analysis
- 3.1Cliticisation and incorporation
- 3.2Enclisis to the past participle
- 4.Conclusion
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Acknowledgements
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