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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Inhaltsverzeichnis (Table of Contents)
- Introduction
- 1. Progovac
- 2. Cavar and Wilder
Zielsetzung und Themenschwerpunkte (Objectives and Key Themes)
This paper provides a concise overview of the placement of clitics in Serbo-Croatian, focusing on the contrasting views of linguists Progovac, Cavar/Wilder, and Boskovic. It examines the nature of clitic placement, particularly in relation to word order and constituent movement.
- The nature of clitic placement in Serbo-Croatian
- The role of word order and constituent movement
- The interaction between syntax and phonology in clitic placement
- The comparison of different theoretical approaches to clitic placement
- The relationship between clitic placement and verb movement
Zusammenfassung der Kapitel (Chapter Summaries)
- Introduction: This section introduces the topic of clitic placement in Serbo-Croatian, highlighting the language's free word order and rich morphological system. It also outlines the paper's scope and the perspectives of different linguists that will be discussed.
- 1. Progovac: This section presents Progovac's analysis of clitic placement, focusing on her argument that clitics adjoin to the head of CP (Comp). It examines her proposed mechanisms for clitic support in main and subordinate clauses, including constituent movement to Spec of CP.
- 2. Cavar and Wilder: This section examines Cavar and Wilder's approach to clitic placement, highlighting their focus on the interaction between syntax and phonology. It presents their view that clitic second effects are a result of both a syntactic placement rule and a phonological filter. The section also explores their analysis of verb movement in relation to clitics.
Schlüsselwörter (Keywords)
The paper's main keywords include Serbo-Croatian, clitics, word order, constituent movement, syntactic placement, phonological filter, verb movement, Spec of CP, Comp, Progovac, Cavar, Wilder.
- Quote paper
- Bruno Jurilj (Author), 2005, The Placement of Clitics in Serbo-Croatian, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/80002
