A Handbook of Slavic CliticsClitics are grammatical elements that are treated as independent words in syntax but form a phonological unit with the word that precedes or follows it. This volume brings together the facts about clitics in the Slavic languages, where they have become a focal points of recent research. The authors draw relevant generalizations across the Slavic languages and highlight the importance of these phenomena for linguistic theory. |
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2P clitics accusative analysis argue argument aux.1PL aux.1SG auxiliary clitics Bg and Mac Bošković Ćavar clause clitic auxiliary clitic climbing clitic cluster clitic doubling clitic placement clitic system clitics appear clitics precede complementizer cond constituent copula dative clitic dialects discussed enclitic examples fact finite verb full forms functional heads genitive Halpern him.ACC him.DAT host the clitics indirect object inflectional initial position it.ACC Ivan Jovan jsem knigata knjigu lexical LSor Marija maximal projection me.DAT Mišeska-Tomić morphological negation negative marker nonclitic noun phrase participle person markers phonological prepositions PrInv proclitic Progovac pronominal clitics pronouns prosodic word refl refl.ACC refl.DAT reflexive clitic Rivero Rudin second position sentence simple clitics Sl languages Slavic clitics Slavic languages special clitics split šte stress syntactic syntax tense them.ACC ungrammatical USor včera verb-adjacent clitics verbal auxiliary verbal auxiliary clitics yesterday you.DAT
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Page vi - The publication of this volume was made possible in part through the financial assistance of the Indiana University Russian and East European Institute through their Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment, and a subvention from the Dragan Plamenac Publication Endowment Fund of the American Musicological Society.