Date: 16-Sep-2010 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Clitics in Greek: Mavrogiorgos E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Clitics in Greek
Subtitle: A minimalist account of proclisis and enclisis
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 160
Published: 2010
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Author: Marios Mavrogiorgos
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027288035 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027288035 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255433 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 105
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255433 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 111.30
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255433 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Abstract:
This monograph investigates the morpho-syntactic and other properties of clitic pronouns in Greek and offers a grammar of proclisis and enclisis in light of Chomsky's (1995, 2001a, 2005) Minimalist Program. It explores the nature of clitics as syntactic topicalizers which are probed by structurally higher verbal heads to which they move and into which they incorporate morpho-syntactically. A theory is advanced according to which cliticization derives from syntactic agreement between (the phi-features of) a clitic pronoun and a phase head, v* in the case of proclisis and CM in the case of enclisis. Incorporation of the clitic into its host is argued to depend on two factors, i.e. the fact that the clitic only contains a subset of the features of its host, and the fact that the edge of the host is accessible. Also, the syntax of strong pronouns and their relation to clitics, of negated imperatives, of surrogate imperatives and of free clitic ordering in Greek enclisis are also discussed. This monograph would appeal to syntacticians and morphologists as well as to those interested in Greek and more generally in clitic syntax.
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