The Phonology and Syntax of Preverbal and Postverbal Subject Clitics in Northern Italian Dialects

Author:

Cardinaletti Anna1,Repetti Lori2

Affiliation:

1. Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Dorsoduro 1075, 30123 Venezia, Italy.

2. Department of Linguistics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4376.

Abstract

We argue that preverbal and postverbal subject clitics in northern Italian dialects are the same lexical items. The different forms of proclitics and enclitics can be explained phonologically (i.e., by phonological constraints ranked in a particular order) and by the hypothesis that morphologically neutral vowels may be inserted in final position (what we call morphological epenthesis). The distributional differences in the paradigm derive from a competition between overt clitics and null subjects that is resolved in an intricate way across sentence types and across dialects and that depends on the interaction of clitic and verb movement and on Minimize Structure.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

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