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The Catalan clitic system : a diachronic perspective on its syntax and phonology /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fischer, Susann, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.
Colección:Interface explorations ; 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. Methodological and theoretical issues
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Aims and hypotheses of the book
  • 3. Philological issues and methodological problems in the study of syntactic change
  • 3.1. The analysis of diachronic data
  • 3.2. Written versus spoken language
  • 3.3. The selection of texts
  • 4. The texts used to form the data base
  • 4.1. The data base
  • Chapter 2. Clitic syntax from Old Catalan to Modern Catalan
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Latin to medieval Romance
  • 3. Old Catalan clitics (13thâ€?15th century)
  • 3.1. Clitic types
  • 3.2. Clitic distribution3.3. Striking features
  • 3.4. Summary
  • 4. Clitics in the DecadÃ?ncia (16thâ€?18th century)
  • 4.1. Clitic types
  • 4.2. Clitic distribution
  • 4.3. Striking features
  • 4.4. Summary
  • 5. Clitics in the RenaixenÃa (19th century)
  • 5.1. Clitic types
  • 5.2. Clitic distribution
  • 5.3. Striking features
  • 5.4. Summary
  • 6. Modern Catalan clitics (20th century)
  • 6.1. Clitic types
  • 6.2. Clitic distribution
  • 6.3. Striking features
  • 6.4 Summary
  • 7. Synopsis
  • 7.1. Catalan clitic development (13thâ€?20th century)
  • 7.2 Other Romance languages over the centuriesChapter 3. Recent analyses and their problems
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Prosodic analyses
  • 2.1. Last resort movement triggered by PF
  • 2.2. Reordering of constituents on PF
  • 2.3. Phonological Filter
  • 2.4. Summary
  • 3. Syntactic approaches
  • 3.1. Verb movement
  • 3.2. Clitic movement
  • 3.3. Summary
  • 4. Synopsis
  • Chapter 4. Rethinking the Tobler-Mussafia law
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Problems for the phonological analyses
  • 2.1. Reservations
  • 2.2. Main considerations
  • 2.3. Strong arguments against purely prosodic accounts3. Problems for the syntactical analyses
  • 3.1. Considerations
  • 3.2. Strong arguments against a verb-second analysis
  • 4. Casting doubts
  • 4.1. On the Tobler-Mussafia law
  • 4.2. On the phrasal character of clitic pronouns
  • 5. Summary
  • Chapter 5. Seeking an analysis
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The making-up of syntax
  • 2.1. A particular category
  • 2.2. Adopting Σ into a Minimalist framework
  • 2.3. Empirical evidence from the Romance languages in general
  • 2.4. Empirical evidence from Old Catalan
  • 3. The work left for phonology3.1. Late lexical insertion
  • 3.2. Conditioned allomorphy
  • 4. Summary
  • Chapter 6. Explaining the changes
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Diachronic instability
  • 3. A tentative approach
  • 3.1. Variation at the level of individuals
  • 3.2. Language change within a Minimalist framework
  • 3.3. Change in and diffusion of the Catalan clitic distribution
  • 4. Summary
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index