UID:
almahu_9949447747202882
Format:
1 online resource (192 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789027254641
Series Statement:
Studies in Language Companion ; v.229
Content:
This monograph offers a comprehensive formalized description of second-position clitics in standard Serbian from the viewpoint of the Meaning-Text theory, an approach relying on syntactic dependencies and oriented towards speech production, which sets it apart from most contemporary frameworks.
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Intro -- Serbian Clitics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Symbols, abbreviations and writing conventions -- Symbols -- Abbreviations -- Fonts -- Glossing of examples -- Tonal accents -- Pronunciation of some graphemes -- Chapter 1. Clitics and syntactic dependencies -- 1. Clitics in Language and linguistics -- 1.1 Defining clitics -- 1.2 Types of clitics -- 1.3 Approaches to clitics -- 2. Basic facts about Serbian clitics -- 2.1 Overview of the Serbian clitic system -- 2.1.1 Inventory of Serbian 2P clitics -- 2.1.2 Cliticization -- 2.1.3 Linearization of Serbian 2P clitics -- 2.2 Other Slavic clitic systems -- South Slavic -- West Slavic -- East Slavic -- 2.3 Serbian clitics in scholarly literature -- 3. Basic notions of dependency representation relevant for describing clitics -- 3.1 Meaning-text linguistic models -- 3.1.1 The input for clitic placement operations: Surface-syntactic representation -- 3.1.2 The output of clitic placement operations: Deep-morphological representation -- 3.1.3 Rules carrying out clitic placement operations -- 3.2 Synthetizing Serbian sentences with clitics: An illustration -- Chapter 2. Cliticization of Serbian personal pronouns and auxiliary verbs -- 1. Cliticization -- 2. Licensing conditions on cliticization -- 3. Cliticization rules for personal pronouns and auxiliary verbs -- 4. Summary -- Chapter 3. Serbian clitic cluster -- 1. Constitution of the clitic cluster -- 1.1 Clitic cluster template -- 1.2 Mutual order of the clitics within the cluster -- Position 1: Modality/discourse clitics -- Positions 2 and 8: Clitic verbs -- Positions 3-6: Clitic pronouns -- Position 7: Reflexive adjunct SE -- 2. Co-occurrence constraints affecting clitics -- 2.1 "Clitic1 ~ Clitic2" cooccurrence constraints.
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2.1.1 Syntactic constraints on the co-occurrence of clitics -- 2.1.2 Morphonological constraints on the co-occurrence of clitics -- 2.2 "Clitic ~ Host" cooccurrence constraints -- 2.2.1 Hosts of LI(INTERR) -- 2.2.2 Hosts of the clitic future markers -- 3. Clitic cluster building rules -- 4. Summary -- Chapter 4. Linear placement of Serbian clitics -- 1. Overview of Serbian 2P clitic linear placement -- 2. An informal account of Serbian 2P clitic placement -- 2.1 Types of host -- 2.2 Fixed placement -- 2.3 Variable placement -- 2.3.1 Delayed placement (skipping) -- 2.3.2 Insertion -- 2.3.3 Clause-final position -- 3. Linear placement of Serbian clitics within the meaning-text framework -- 3.1 MTT constituents as "Building Blocks" for the linearization of the syntactic structure -- 3.2 Linearization rules -- 3.2.1 Sample sentences with clitics and their relevant representations -- 3.2.2 Linearization rules for non-clitic elements -- 3.2.3 Linearization rules for the clitics -- 4. Summary -- Chapter 5. Special issues in the linear placement of Serbian clitics -- 1. Clitic Pseudo-climbing out of dependent infinitive phrases -- 1.1 Overview of infinitive clitics linear placement -- 1.2 An informal description of the linearization of infinitive clitics -- 1.2.1 Governors and syntactic roles of Vinf -- 1.2.2 Factors relevant for the linear placement of the infinitive clitics -- 1.3 Linearization of the infinitive clitics within the meaning-text framework -- 1.3.1 What does "pseudo-" in "clitic pseudo-climbing" mean? -- 1.3.2 Linearization rules for the infinitive clitics -- 2. Serbian clitics as proclitics -- 2.1 Post-prosodic break clitic placement -- 2.2 Clause-initial clitic placement -- 3. Summary -- Chapter 6. Morphological makeup of Serbian clitics -- 1. Pronominal clitics -- 1.1 Forms of personal pronouns.
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1.1.1 First and second person pronouns: JA 'I', TI 'you[sg]', MI 'we', VI 'you[pl]' -- 1.1.2 Third person pronoun ON 'he' -- 1.1.3 Linguistic comments -- 1.2 Morphology of personal pronouns -- 2. Verbal clitics -- 2.1 Forms of auxiliary verbs -- 2.1.1 BITI 'be' -- 2.1.2 hteti lit. 'will' [future tense auxiliary] -- 2.2 Morphology of auxiliary verbs -- 2.2.1 Affirmative forms -- 2.2.2 Negative forms -- 3. Summary -- Chapter 7. Serbian clitics as a challenge for the linguistic theory -- 1. Serbian clitic auxiliaries: Syntactic heads or dependents? -- 1.1 The problem stated -- 1.2 Determining the direction of the syntactic dependency in the configuration V(aux)fin -v(lex) -- 1.2.1 Two formal criteria for determining the direction of the syntactic dependency -- 1.2.2 Informal considerations for determining the direction of the syntactic dependency -- 1.2.3 Additional arguments in favor of treating Serbian auxiliaries as clausal heads -- 2. Serbian future-tense markers: Clitics or affixes? -- 2.1 The problem stated -- 2.1.1 Wordform and affix -- 2.1.2 Puzzling properties of future-tense markers -- 2.2 Criteria for distinguishing clitics from affixes -- 2.2.1 Syntactic criteria -- 2.2.2 Morphonological criteria -- 2.2.3 Criteria proposed in Zwicky & -- Pullum (1983) -- 3. Summary -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Index of languages -- Index of terms.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Milićević, Jasmina Serbian Clitics Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,c2023 ISBN 9789027212979
Language:
English
