On the Semantics of Pronominal Clitics and some of its Consequences
Recent work on the acquisition of the binding conditions suggests that pronominal clitics (PCs) encode the presence of an unsaturated argument position. In other words, PC-constructions encode functional abstraction: the argument position related to the PC is re-opened. This interpretation represent...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2002 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:2796 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/2796 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/catjl.55 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Clítics pronominals Condicions d'interfície Trets interpretables Topicalització Perifèria esquerra Efectes de localitat Clítics de represa Clíticos pronominales Condiciones de interfaz Rasgos interpretables Periferia izquierda Efectos de localidad Clíticos de reanudación Pronominal clitics Interface conditions Interpretable features Topicalization Left periphery Locality effects Resumptive clitics |
| Sumario: | Recent work on the acquisition of the binding conditions suggests that pronominal clitics (PCs) encode the presence of an unsaturated argument position. In other words, PC-constructions encode functional abstraction: the argument position related to the PC is re-opened. This interpretation represents a radical departure from traditional analyses (in virtually every syntactic framework, including HPSG and Principles&Parameters), which take PCs to reduce the valence of the predicate to which they are linked, either in the lexicon (HPSG) or in syntax (P&P). In this contribution, I will provide conceptual and empirical motivation for this radical reinterpretation of PC-constructions, by claiming that it considerably enhances the prospects of explanatory adequacy in (at least) the following domains: (a) the acquisition data relative to Principle B Effects in Romance languages; (b) the familiar vs. bound-variable interpretation of PCs; (c) the diachronic relationship between clitic left-dislocation constructions (CLLD) and PC-constructions; (d) the properties of Romance CLLD which are still in need of a deep conceptual account, like the (optional) presence of a resumptive clitic and the recursive nature of the topic projections in the left-periphery. |
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