Clitic doubling in the Balkan languages /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 442 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today ; v. 130 Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 130.
Subject:	Balkan Peninsula -- Languages -- Clitics. Balkan Peninsula. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11196960

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Other authors / contributors:	Kallulli, Dalina. Tasmowski, Liliane.
ISBN:	9789027255136 902725513X 9789027289896 9027289891 128210456X 9781282104563 9786612104565 6612104562
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in Romance languages, with the Balkan patterns coming increasingly into focus. Since the mid-nineties, these patterns presented a variety of challenges to the generalisations reached on the basis of Romance, while also raising new research questions. The volume deals among other things with the following a.
Other form:	Print version: Clitic doubling in the Balkan languages. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. List of contributors
2. Preface
3. Introduction: Clitic doubling, core syntax and the interfaces
4. Part I. Clitic doubling within the Balkan Continuum: Rise and spread
5. 1. Balkan object reduplication in areal and dialectological perspective
6. 2. Towards grammaticalization of clitic doubling: Clitic doubling in Macedonian and neighbouring languages
7. 3. The genesis of clitic doubling from Ancient to Medieval Greek
8. 4. Clitic doubling and Old Bulgarian
9. Part II. Discourse functional properties of clitic doubling
10. 5. Romanian clitic doubling: A view from pragmatics-semantics and diachrony
11. 6. Clitic doubling from Ancient to Asia Minor Greek
12. 7. Object clitic doubling constructions and topicality in Bulgarian
13. Part III. Morpho-syntactic properties and modelling of clitic doubling
14. 8. Clitic doubling, agreement and information structure: The case of Albanian
15. 9. Clitic reduplication constructions in Bulgarian
16. 10. Clitic doubling, complex heads and interarboreal operations
17. 11. Rethinking the Clitic Doubling parameter: The inverse correlation between clitic doubling and participle agreement
18. Part IV. Clitic doubling within the DP
19. 12. Romanian possessive clitics revisited
20. 13. Possessive clitics in the DP: Doubling or dislocation?
21. Name index
22. Language index
23. Subject index

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