LINGUIST List 13.2820

Fri Nov 1 2002

Books: Syntax: Gerlach

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1. paul, Clitics between Syntax and Lexicon: Gerlach

			
Title: Clitics between Syntax and Lexicon
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 51
			
Publication Year: 2002
			
Publisher: John Benjamins 
 http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		 
			
Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA_51
			
Author: Birgit Gerlach, Heinrich-Heine-University 
				
Hardback: ISBN: 1588112454, Pages: xii, 282 pp., Price: USD 87.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027227721, Pages: xii, 282 pp., Price: EUR 97.00

			
Abstract:

As a typical interface phenomenon, clitics have become increasingly
important in linguistic theory during the last decade. The present
book contributes to the recent discussion and first provides a
comprehensive overview of clitic sequencing, clitic placement and
clitic doubling in the major Romance languages. In addition, new data
from a northern Italian dialect are introduced. The author then gives
a critical summary of the current morphological analyses of clitic
phenomena. She also discusses recent Optimality-theoretical analyses
of clitic combinations and clitic placement and shows how these
analyses can be improved upon when we also consider a morphological
treatment of clitics. This book provides innovative solutions to
clitic phenomena within the framework of a constraint-based
morphological theory and will be of interest not only to
morphologists, syntacticians and those working on the grammar of
Romance languages, but also to linguists who are interested in the
org! anisation of the grammar and the lexicon.


Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix 
Abbreviations xi 
1. Introduction 1 
2. The status of Romance clitics between words and affixes 17 
3. Clitics in the lexicon 73 
4. Clitic sequences 127 
5. Syntax at the interfaces:clitic placement and clitic doubling 189 
6. Summary 237 
References 241 
Appendix 255

Lingfield(s):
Generative Linguistics (Syntax)
Syntax
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)