JSL Volume 12 No.1-2

Contents

Articles

Steven Franks, Uwe Junghanns, and Paul Law
Pronomial Clitics in Slavic     3

Željko Bošković
Clitic Placement in South Slavic     39

Andrew Caink
Semi-Lexical Heads and Clitic Climbing     95

Denisa Lenertova
Czech Pronominal Clitics     139

Sandra Stjepanovi
Clitic Climbing and Restructuring with "Finite Clause" and Infinitive Complements     177

Olga Miš eska Tomić
The South Slavic Pronominal Clitics     213

Archive

Wayles Browne
Serbo-Croatian Enclitics for English-Speaking Learners     251

Reviews

Loren A. Billings
Željko Bošković. On the Nature of the Syntax-Phonology Interface: Cliticization and Related Phenomena     285

Article Abstracts

Steven Franks, Uwe Junghanns, and Paul Law

Pronomial Clitics in Slavic

Abstract not available

Željko Bošković

Clitic Placement in South Slavic

Abstract: The paper examines clitic placement and the nature of clitic clustering in Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian. It is argued that Serbo-Croatian clitics do not cluster syntactically; they are located in different projections in the syntax. The order of clitics within the clitic cluster is argued to follow from the hierarchical arrangement of projections in which they are located. The paper also provides a principled account of the idiosyncratic behavior of the auxiliary clitic je, which in contrast to other auxiliary clitics follows pronominal clitics. In contrast to Serbo-Croatian clitics, Bulgarian and Macedonian clitics are argued to cluster in the same head position in the final syntactic representation. The cluster is formed through successive cyclic leftward adjunctions of clitics to the verb, in accordance with the LCA. Following Chomsky’s (1994) suggestion that clitics are ambiguous head/phrasal elements, it is argued that clitics do not branch, hence cannot take complements. This claim leads to a new proposal concerning the structural representation of several clitic forms.

Andrew Caink

Semi-Lexical Heads and Clitic Climbing

Abstract: A unified analysis of "clitic climbing” from subordinate clauses in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian and from DP in Czech is presented. Such clitic placement is demonstrated to co-occur with a semi-lexical head, and several apparently lexical Czech nouns are shown to have semi-lexical status. The definition of an "extended projection” is made contingent upon a theory of variable lexicalization, enabling a semi-lexical head to optionally occur within the extended projection of a lower lexical head. This option allows the pronominal clitic in both constructions to appear higher in the tree, while not violating the single structural relation between any pronominal clitic and its associated theta-assigned position

Denisa Lenertova

Czech Pronominal Clitics

Abstract: This article explores the empirical properties of Czech pronominal clitics, which differ from their counterparts in other second position (2P) clitic languages (such as Serbian-Croatian) in a number of respects. After looking at clitic-first and clitic-third phenomena and their semantic/pragmatic impact, it is argued that Czech clitic placement must be basically driven by syntax, and that the 2P is a heterogeneous structure in which pronominal clitics occupy a TP-external position below clitic auxiliaries, but higher than the copula. The linear ordering of pronominal clitics within their cluster has a certain limited flexibility due to phonological requirements, which affect both monoclausal clitic placement and clitic climbing. Finally, the empirical details of clitic climbing in Czech are discussed, showing that it cannot be reduced to movement for case checking or to the phenomenon of restructuring known from Romance languages.

Sandra Stjepanovi

Clitic Climbing and Restructuring with "Finite Clause" and Infinitive Complements

Abstract not available

Olga Miš eska Tomić

The South Slavic Pronominal Clitics

Abstract not available