By and large in the generative framework, syntactic comparisons concern isolated mechanisms within different languages in a typological perspective. However, comparison can provide more if, as dialectologists, we consider that variation between closely genealogically related languages throws light on diachronic reconstruction. Indeed, if diatopic variation represents different stages of a change, then different dialects in a homogeneous area display different stages of the evolution and the speakers’ I-language for the earlier stages becomes accessible.
Considering the Null ‘Subject’ Parameter, we focus on the dialects at the boundaries of Occitania since they display subject clitics for some persons only. Our data illustrate the gradual change between a stage zero (with no subject clitics, e.g. Latin) and a stage n (with subject clitics for all persons, e.g. Standard French). Analyzing clitics as bundles of features, we propose a progression in their emergence, which ties in with a functional ‘motivational cycle’ of the morpho-syntactic elements.
2021. Theoretical preliminaries. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 35 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Properties of Romance object clitics. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 11 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Deriving enclisis in ‘V1’ clauses. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 213 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Introduction. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 1 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Clitics in embryo. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 151 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Historical overview. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 63 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Romance Object Clitics,
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Morphophonological evidence against deficiency. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 135 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Clitic combinations. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 267 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Clitic climbing. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 235 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. The rise ofadverbalclitics. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 165 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Conclusions. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 295 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. ‘V2’ and clitic placement. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 183 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Syntactic evidence against deficiency. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 107 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2022. Microvariation in agreement inflection: Subject clitics vs inflection. Word Structure 15:3 ► pp. 358 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2023. Clitic Cluster Restrictions. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology, ► pp. 1 ff.
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2021. Copyright Page. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. iv ff.
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2021. List of abbreviations. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. xiii ff.
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2021. Series preface. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. ix ff.
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