Clitics in Greek : a minimalist account of proclisis and enclisis
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Clitics in Greek : a minimalist account of proclisis and enclisis
(Linguistik aktuell, v. 160)
J. Benjamins, c2010
- : hbk
- Other Title
-
Clitics in Greek
Available at 11 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This monograph investigates the morpho-syntactic and other properties of clitic pronouns in Greek and offers a grammar of proclisis and enclisis in light of Chomsky's (1995, 2001a, 2005) Minimalist Program. It explores the nature of clitics as syntactic topicalizers which are probed by structurally higher verbal heads to which they move and into which they incorporate morpho-syntactically. A theory is advanced according to which cliticization derives from syntactic agreement between (the phi-features of) a clitic pronoun and a phase head, v* in the case of proclisis and CM in the case of enclisis. Incorporation of the clitic into its host is argued to depend on two factors, i.e. the fact that the clitic only contains a subset of the features of its host, and the fact that the edge of the host is accessible. Also, the syntax of strong pronouns and their relation to clitics, of negated imperatives, of surrogate imperatives and of free clitic ordering in Greek enclisis are also discussed. This monograph would appeal to syntacticians and morphologists as well as to those interested in Greek and more generally in clitic syntax.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. Chapter 1. Introduction
- 3. Chapter 2. The properties of Greek clitics and their structural analysis
- 4. Chapter 3. Internal structure of clitics and cliticization
- 5. Chapter 4. Derivation of proclisis
- 6. Chapter 5. Patterns of proclisis/enclisis and the role of V-movement
- 7. Chapter 6. Enclisis in Greek: The role of CM in deriving enclisis
- 8. Chapter 7. Concluding remarks
- 9. References
- 10. Index
by "Nielsen BookData"