Cliticization as Unselective Attract

The purpose of this article is to provide an explanatory account of the divide between enclisis and proclisis in pronominal clitic constructions in Romance and Semitic languages. The analysis is based on two fundamental assumptions: (i) clitics do not target designated prelabelled posi- tions, but t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lea Nash, Alain Rouveret
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2002-12-01
Series:Catalan Journal of Linguistics
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/58