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<br><hr><b>Tesis doctoral: </b>Kuchenbrandt, Imme. 2009<br>
Prosodische Aspekte in der Entwicklung der spanischen und französischen Klitika. Universität Hamburg (Alemania)<br>
URL: <a href="http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/opus/volltexte/2009/4070/">http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/opus/volltexte/2009/4070/</a><br>
<b>Información de:</b> Infoling List <infoling@infoling.org><br><hr><br><b>Autor:</b> Kuchenbrandt, Imme<br>
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<br><b>Título de la tesis:</b> Prosodische Aspekte in der Entwicklung der spanischen und französischen Klitika<br>
<b>Número de págs.:</b> 274<br>
<br><br><b>Área temática:</b>
Fonología, Lingüística histórica, Teorías lingüísticas<br><br><b>Fecha de lectura o defensa:</b> 2009<br>
<br><b>Departamento, centro o laboratorio en el que se ha desarrollado:</b> Department of Languages, Literature and Media. Universität Hamburg (Alemania)<br>
<b>Director: </b>Christoph Gabriel
<br><b>Codirector: </b>Conxita Lleó
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<br><b>Resumen</b><br><br>
Clitic pronouns have received much attention during the past decades. Their prosodic and phonological characteristics are often used as their identifying properties
, which serve as a motivation for their special linguistic behaviour. This holds for the clitic pronouns in Old Romance
, too. They are subject to the so-called Tobler-Mussafia Law (TML)
, which prohibits their occurrence in sentence-initial position. This special positioning is traditionally motivated through the assumption that these clitics are inherently enclitic (Enclisis Theory
, Meyer-Lübke 1897
, a.o.). Even recent publications adopt this view without questioning its implications for current phonological frameworks. The present investigation focuses on the domains of phonology and prosody
, but it integrates morphological
, syntactic and semantic insights
, as well. The aims of the study are two-fold. First
, we investigate the properties of several clitic types and interpret them in the light of current linguistic models. It is shown that the 'special' behaviour of clitics results from their independently assumed properties. This means that a class of clitics
, different from words and from affixes
, is neither needed nor theoretically motivated. Second
, we investigate the properties and the positioning of clitic object pronouns in Old Spanish and Old French prose texts from the late 13th century. Although Old Spanish clitic pronouns are subject to the Tobler-Mussafia Law
, they may occur within structures where a phonological binding to the left is impossible. We therefore reject the Enclisis Theory as a motivation for the TML. The Old French object clitics do not undergo the Tobler-Mussafia Law any longer. Like the Old Spanish clitics
, they do not show a constant phonological binding. For both languages
, object clitics are best analysed as functional heads (X°) from the 13th century on; this entails that the Tobler-Mussafia Law does not depend on the phrasal status (XP) of the clitic pronouns.<br><br><b>Cómo obtener la tesis:</b> http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/opus/volltexte/2009/4070/pdf/Kuchenbrandt_2009Diss.pdf<br>
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