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Gonzalez Lopez, Veronica

 
9783639156003: Spanish Clitic Climbing: A study of the distribution of direct object pronouns
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ISBN 10 : 3639156005 ISBN 13 : 9783639156003
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

This study analyzes direct object clitics and clitic climbing structures in Spanish. There exists a rich body of literature on the nature and distribution of object clitics in Romance, addressing a diversity of questions, among these, whether clitics behave as independent words or bound morphemes, and how and where they are to be represented in the structure of a sentence. To date, French and Italian have been the primary focus of attention in research addressing clitics; the facts of Spanish have gone largely unexamined. Redressing this oversight, this study examines data on the placement of clitics across dialects of Spanish. The findings afford a more complete account of clitics in Romance than is available in the extant literature and contribute to theories of syntactic micro-variation. At the center of this study is the development of a proposal in which clitics may be generated in two structural positions, as dictated by the selectional properties of certain predicates. This proposal is novel in focusing specifically on the analysis of clitics in Spanish and in seeking to achieve an adequate and complete description of these elements both morphologically and syntactically.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This study analyzes direct object clitics and clitic climbing structures in Spanish. There exists a rich body of literature on the nature and distribution of object clitics in Romance, addressing a diversity of questions, among these, whether clitics behave as independent words or bound morphemes, and how and where they are to be represented in the structure of a sentence. To date, French and Italian have been the primary focus of attention in research addressing clitics; the facts of Spanish have gone largely unexamined. Redressing this oversight, this study examines data on the placement of clitics across dialects of Spanish. The findings afford a more complete account of clitics in Romance than is available in the extant literature and contribute to theories of syntactic micro-variation. At the center of this study is the development of a proposal in which clitics may be generated in two structural positions, as dictated by the selectional properties of certain predicates. This proposal is novel in focusing specifically on the analysis of clitics in Spanish and in seeking to achieve an adequate and complete description of these elements both morphologically and syntactically.

Biographie de l'auteur

Verónica González López was born and raised in Asturias, Spain. She graduated from the University of Oviedo in 2001 with a degree in English Philology. Verónica has also received an M.A. degree from Umass in 2004, and a Ph.D from Penn State in 2008, both in Spanish linguistics. Verónica currently lives in Granville, OH with her husband and 3 cats.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639156005
ISBN 13 
9783639156003
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
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