Syntactic approaches to cliticization

The representation of third person and its consequences for person-case effects

“…To investigate this hypothesis, I created the nonce verb lar, meaning 'to kick' (as many dialects of Spanish notably lack this verb, and moreover, it is semantically similar to the double-object verb 'to give'; see Ramscar (2002), who shows that semantic similarity biases nonce irregular verb inflection). I inflected lar entirely parallel to dar 'to give', and I trained native speaker volunteers on sentences such as (17) As dar 'to give' is analyzable as d + ar, the invented verb lar is analyzable as l + ar, and, as per the reviewer's suggestion, le is analyzable as l + e, the prediction of the 3 Manzini (1998) offers the suggestion that the spurious se is triggered by "competition" of two 3rd person arguments, capturing the same intuition that it is identity of person features that yields the repair by se. 4 See also Grimshaw (1997), who captures the intuition that this is a language-particular dissimilation rule driven by the constraint "*XX".…”

Cliticisation et théorie syntaxique, 1971-2001*

“…La somme de travaux effectués dans le cadre de la grammaire générative dans le domaine des clitiques est si considé-rable que nous ne pouvons pas ici prétendre à l'exhaustivité. On pourra consulter Auger 1994, Manzini 1998et Miller 1992, qui font aussi le point sur les études relatives aux clitiques. Nous remercions Denis Bouchard, Denis Dumas et Marie-Thérèse Vinet pour leurs remarques.…”