A Lexical Approach to Italian Cliticization - Couverture souple

Monachesi, Assistant Professor Of Linguistics Paola

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1575861089 ISBN 13 : 9781575861081

Editeur : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion, 1999

Synopsis

This volume examines the behavior of clitics both in Italian and in certain southern Italian dialects in order to show that, even within a single language, clitics exhibit different properties. Monachesi argues against the existence of a special class 'clitics' whose elements exhibit variable behavior. Instead, she decomposes and assimilates their properties to those of well established categories. Motivations are thus provided for treating Italian object clitics as affixes. It is shown that both their morphosyntactic and their phonological behavior argue in favor of this assumption. Under this view, a lexicalist analysis is proposed which takes into account the phonological, morphological, and syntactic properties of Italian clitics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1575861089
• ISBN 13: 9781575861081
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible