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Title: The Placement of Clitics in Serbo-Croatian ()

The Placement of Clitics in Serbo-Croatian

Termpaper, 2005, 11 Pages
Author: Bruno Jurilj
Subject: American Studies - Linguistics

Details

Event: Parameters: typology and variation
Institution/College: Free University of Berlin (JFK Institut für Nordamerikastudien)
Tags: Placement, Clitics, Serbo-Croatian, Parameters

Category: Termpaper
Year: 2005
Pages: 11
Grade: gut (2,0)
Bibliography: ~ 5 Entries
Language: English

Archive No.: V80002
ISBN (E-book): 978-3-638-82850-5

File size: 205 KB

Abstract

This paper is offers a short overview of the basic evidence on clitics in Serbian/Croatian. Serbian/Croatian is a language with a virtualy free word order due to ist rich morphological heritage in form of inflections for case, gender and tense marking. In this paper, I am basically concerned with a major exception to this general rule- the position of clitics. Serbo-Croat (nowdays formally divided into three standard languages Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian) has a rich system of clitic forms, including Dative and Accusative pronominal clitics; verbal clitics; which are unstressed forms of finite auxiliary verbs; and the interrogative marker “li“. On the course of this paper I will confront some opposing paradigmas on the rules underlying the structural positon of clitics within the syntax of Serbian/Croatian. .

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Freie Universität Berlin

J.F.K. Institut für Nordamerikastudien

Abteilung für Linguistik Hs „Parameters: typology and variation WS 2004/05

The Placement of Clitics in Serbo-Croatian

Bruno Jurilj

Introduction

This paper is supposed to be a short overview of the basic evidence on clitics in Serbo-Croatian. Serbo-Croatian is a language with a virtualy free word order due to ist rich morphological heritage in form of inflections for case, gender and tense marking. In this paper, I am basically concerned with one exception to this general rule- the position of clitics. Serbo-Croat (nowdays formally divided into three standard languages Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian) has a rich system of clitic forms, including Dative and Accusative pronominal clitics; verbal clitics; which are unstressed forms of finite auxiliary verbs; and the interrogative marker “li“.

On the course of this paper I will confront some competing wievs on the positon of clitics in Serbo-Croatian. Since a real study of syntatic phenomena takes a large amount of material and a great deal of in-depth syntatic knowledge, I will limit my efforts to a mere stocktaking of some of the existing wievs- those of native speaker linguists- Progovac, Cavar/Wilder and Boskovic.

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