Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 676 g
Reihe: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
Microvariation and Linguistic Change
Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 676 g
Reihe: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
ISBN: 978-0-19-886438-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press
This book offers an empirical and theoretical exploration of the development of object clitic pronouns in the Romance languages, drawing on data from Latin, medieval vernaculars, modern Romance languages, and lesser-known dialects. Diego Pescarini examines phonological, morphological, and especially syntactic aspects of Romance object clitics, using the findings to reconstruct their evolution from Latin to Romance and to model clitic placement in modern Romance
languages. On the theoretical side, the volume engages with previous accounts of clitics, particularly in generative theory. It challenges the received idea that cliticization resulted from a form of syntactic deficiency; instead, it proposes that clitics resulted from the feature endowment of discourse
features, which initially caused freezing of certain pronominal forms and then - through reanalysis - their successive incorporation to verbal hosts. This approach leads to a revision of earlier analyses of well-known phenomena such as interpolation, climbing, and enclisis/proclisis alternations, and to new approaches to issues including V2 syntax, scrambling, and stylistic fronting, among many others.
