Tesis doctoral: Gonz ález López, V. Spanish Clitic Climbing

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Tesis doctoral:
González López, Verónica. 2008. Spanish Clitic Climbing. Department of
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese,
Pennsylvania State University.
Acceso a la tesis:
http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-3030/index.html
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1. Autora: González López, Verónica

2. Título de la tesis: Spanish Clitic Climbing

2.1 Número de páginas: 324
2.2 Palabras clave:

3. Fecha de lectura o entrega: 20.6.2008

4. Departamento, centro o laboratorio en el que se ha desarrollado
Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Pennsylvania State University
EE.UU

5. Directora
Prof. Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

6. Proyecto o línea de investigación en el que se incluye

7. Resumen e índice

This dissertation focuses on the study of direct object clitics and
clitic climbing structures in Spanish. Clitic pronouns in the Romance
languages have long occupied the interests of generative linguists. In
the field of morpho-syntax there exists a rich body of literature on
the nature and distribution of object clitic pronouns in Romance,
addressing a diversity of questions, among these, whether clitic
pronouns behave as independent words or bound morphemes, and how and
where they are to be represented in the grammatical structure of a
sentence. The answers to such questions have had implications for the
advancement of theories and models in other fields of study, such as
language contact and language acquisition. To date, French and Italian
have been the primary focus of attention in research addressing clitic
pronouns; the facts of Spanish have gone largely unexamined.
Redressing this oversight, the present project examines data on the
placement of pronouns across dialects of Spanish. The findings will
afford a more complete account of clitic pronouns in Romance than is
available in the extant literature and contribute to theories of
syntactic micro-variation.

Unlike other Romance languages, Spanish allows clitic pronouns to
appear attached to the non-finite verb, as in (1a) and (2a), or
attached to the main conjugated verb, as in (1b) and (2b), a
phenomenon known as 'clitic climbing':

(1) a. Estoy comiéndolo.
     b. Lo estoy comiendo.

(2) a. Quiero comerlo.
     b. Lo quiero comer.

The facts of clitic placement across dialects of Spanish (Castilian
Spanish and North Western Spanish) and in other Romance languages
(Italian, Portuguese, and Asturian) are carefully examined, with the
aim of presenting an account of clitic climbing that is empirically
and explanatorily sound. At the center of the present study is the
development of a proposal in which clitic pronouns may be generated in
two structural positions in the clause, as dictated by the selectional
properties of particular predicates.

The intellectual merit of this proposal resides principally in
understanding the mechanisms that govern the placement of clitic
pronouns
in clitic climbing structures. It is novel in focusing specifically on
the analysis of clitic pronouns in Spanish and in seeking to achieve
an adequate and complete description of these elements both
morphologically and syntactically. A broader contribution of the work
is its focus on reaching a better understanding not only of Spanish
clitic pronouns, but also of Spanish syntactic structure in general,
as the study of clitic placement largely overlaps with other areas of
syntactic research, such as verb movement.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Chapter 1
Introduction
1. Overview, goals, and hypotheses
1.1 The theoretical framework
1.2 Organization

Chapter 2
The characteristics of Clitic Pronouns
2. Introduction
2.1 Classes of pronouns
2.2 Cliticization
2.3 Morphosyntactic characteristics of clitic pronouns
2.3.1 Clitics are affixes
2.3.2 Clitics as Case markers
2.3.3. Clitics as agreement markers
2.3.4 Clitics as specificity markers
2.4 Summary

Chapter 3
Clitic Strings
3. Introduction
3.1 The origin of Spanish clitic pronouns and their coocurrence restrictions
3.2 Clitic string in Spanish
3.3 Morphological approaches to clitic strings
3.3.1 Templatic approaches to clitic strings
3.3.2 Representational approaches
3.4 Syntactic approaches to clitic strings
3.5 Summary

Chapter 4
Approaches to Clitic Placement
4. Introduction
4.1 Second position clitics
4.2 Clitic placement in simple sentences in Spanish
4.3 Syntactic approaches to cliticization
4.3.1 The movement approach
4.3.1.1 Clitic doubling and the movement approach
4.3.2 The base-generation approach
4.3.3 The mixed approach
4.3.3.1 Sportiche (1995)
4.3.2.2 Uriagereka (1995)
4.4 Clitic hosts
4.5 Clitic pronouns and negation
4.6 On the licensing of pro, coindexation, and chains
4.7 Summary

Chapter 5
Clitic Climbing
5. Introduction
5.1 The position of clitic pronouns in clitic climbing structures: description
5.2 Previous analyses of clitic climbing
5.2.1 Incorporation analyses of clitic climbing
5.2.1.1 Kayne (1989, 1991) and followers
5.2.1.2 Roberts (1991, 1994, 1997)
5.2.2 Restructuring approaches
5.2.2.1 Restructuring
5.2.2.2 The Partial Structure Hypothesis
5.2.2.3 The Only Functional Hypothesis
5.3 Summary

Chapter 6
Clitic Climbing: A proposal
6. Introduction
6.1 An outline of the proposal
6.1.1 Location of clitics
6.1.1.1 Against base-generation of clitics in agreement projections
6.1.2 Two clitic projections: evidence
6.2 Verb movement and clitic movement
6.2.1 Verb movement
6.2.2 Movement of the clitic
6.3 Application of the proposal
6.3.1 Simple structures
6.3.2 Complex structures
6.3.3 Negation and clitic climbing
6.4 Summary

Chapter 7
Clitic Pronouns in Asturian
7. Introduction
7.1 Distribution and placement of clitics
7.2 Asturian is not a 2P clitic language
7.3 Enclisis and proclisis
7.3.1 Triggers that force proclisis
7.3.2 Triggers that allow enclisis and proclisis
7.3.3 Clitic placement and Focalization
7.4 Theories on Asturian clitic placement
7.5 Two clitic projections
7.6 Summary

Chapter 8
Concluding Remarks
8. Overview
8.1 A retrospective
8.2 Extensions
8.3 Theoretical contributions

Bibliography

8. Correo-e de la autora: <gonzalezv at denison.edu>

9. Cómo obtener la tesis
http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-3030/index.html

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