32.2558, Books: Romance Object Clitics: Pescarini

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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:43:55
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: Romance Object Clitics: Pescarini

 


Title: Romance Object Clitics 
Subtitle: Microvariation and Linguistic Change 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/romance-object-clitics-9780198864387?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Diego Pescarini

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198864387 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 100


Abstract:

This book offers an empirical and theoretical exploration of the development
of object clitic pronouns in the Romance languages, drawing on data from
Latin, medieval vernaculars, modern Romance languages, and lesser-known
dialects. Diego Pescarini examines phonological, morphological, and especially
syntactic aspects of Romance object clitics, using the findings to reconstruct
their evolution from Latin to Romance and to model clitic placement in modern
Romance languages. On the theoretical side, the volume engages with previous
accounts of clitics, particularly in generative theory. It challenges the
received idea that cliticization resulted from a form of syntactic deficiency;
instead, it proposes that clitics resulted from the feature endowment of
discourse features, which initially caused freezing of certain pronominal
forms and then - through reanalysis - their successive incorporation to verbal
hosts. This approach leads to a revision of earlier analyses of well-known
phenomena such as interpolation, climbing, and enclisis/proclisis
alternations, and to new approaches to issues including V2 syntax, scrambling,
and stylistic fronting, among many others.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Language Family(ies): Romance


Written In: English  (eng)

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