Search results for "Subject Clitics"

showing 1 items of 1 documents

A syntactic analysis of the subject clitic a in the Friulian variety of Campone

2015

This article presents a syntactic analysis of the third person subject clitic a in Camponese, a heretofore unstudied Friulian variety. Following Poletto's (2000) map of subject clitics, we argue that it bears [+third person] features, and is, in fact, the spell-out of the functional head Subj°, located in the highest projection of TP (following Rizzi & Shlonsky 2007). In the first part of the article, we offer a detailed description of the distribution and syntactic properties of the subject clitic a, identifying its position in relation to the other elements that occur in the CP and TP. In the second part we discuss two proposals put forward to account for split clitics like a-l in the…

Settore L-FIL-LET/09 - Filologia E Linguistica RomanzaComputer scienceHead (linguistics)Northern Italian Dialects; Friulian; subject clitics; Split CP; split subject featuresGramàtica comparada i general -- ClíticsP1-1091Subject cliticscomputer.software_genreSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E LinguisticaItalià (Llengua) -- ClíticsNorthern italian dialectsFriuliansplit subject featuresThird personSubject CliticsItalian language -- CliticsCliticSubject (grammar)PC1-5498Syntax; Split CP; Northern Italian Dialects; Friulian; Subject Clitics; split subject featuresSyntaxLlengües romàniques -- ClíticsPhilology. LinguisticsRomanic languagesParsingRomance languages -- CliticsSubject CliticSplit cpSplit CPVariety (linguistics)SyntaxLinguisticsSettore L-FIL-LET/12 - Linguistica ItalianaNorthern Italian DialectsGrammar Comparative and general -- CliticsSplit subject featuresNorthern Italian Dialectcomputer
researchProduct