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17 - Placement and Ordering of the (En)clitics

from Part 3 - Syntax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

By
Franc Lanko Marušič ,
Petra Mišmaš  and
Rok Žaucer
Edited by
Danko Šipka  and
Wayles Browne
Danko Šipka
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Wayles Browne
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

This chapter presents an overview of some of the properties of Slavic clitics. In principle, clitics seem easy to identify: they are phonologically dependent functional elements that appear in a fixed, syntactically defined position in the clitic cluster but otherwise behave like other independent syntactic elements. But these characteristics are fraught with exceptions. We focus on these exceptions in the chapter to show that clitics, although lexically stressless, in certain contexts can be stressed; although they seem to have a fixed position in a sentence, they can appear in unexpected positions both within the clause and within the clitic cluster; although they are functional elements whose position is governed by universal principles, their positioning differs across Slavic languages, and, despite being syntactically independent elements, they occasionally disobey constraints that other syntactically independent elements typically obey.

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2nd positionauxiliary cliticscliticclitic clusterprepositionspronominal cliticsunaccented
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The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics , pp. 365 - 384
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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