Cases of apparent enclisis on past participles in Romance varieties

This paper deals with cases of apparent enclisis on past participles in North-Western Italian varieties. It is claimed that these cases do not involve clitic pronouns, but weak pronouns in the sense of Cardinaletti and Starke (1999). Both syntactic and morphophonological evidence is discussed. Some...

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Autor: Cardinaletti, Anna|||0000-0002-9347-3434
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:142663
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/142663
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.16
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Clitic pronouns
Weak pronouns
Romance
Italian/piedmontese varieties
Descrição
Resumo:This paper deals with cases of apparent enclisis on past participles in North-Western Italian varieties. It is claimed that these cases do not involve clitic pronouns, but weak pronouns in the sense of Cardinaletti and Starke (1999). Both syntactic and morphophonological evidence is discussed. Some varieties display both proclitics and postverbal weak pronouns and use them in different syntactic contexts. Other varieties lack clitic pronouns in their lexicon altogether and only display weak pronouns (alongside strong pronouns), similarly to what happens in e.g. Germanic languages.