The Catalan Clitic System

The book is a qualitative and quantitative investigation into the Catalan clitic system from Old to Modern Catalan. Building on the Minimalist Program, the author shows that a number of facts about Old Romance clitic placement that previously have either not been accounted for or have received unsatisfactory treatment can be explained in a principled way once a strict division of labor between syntax and phonology is adopted.

Methodological and theoretical issues

Introduction

1

(4)

Aims and hypotheses of the book

5

(4)

Philological issues and methodological problems in the study of syntactic change

9

(5)

The analysis of diachronic data

10

(1)

Written versus spoken language

11

(2)

The selection of texts

13

(1)

The texts used to form the data base

14

(9)

The data base

18

(5)

Clitic syntax from Old Catalan to Modern Catalan

Introduction

23

(1)

Latin to medieval Romance

24

(3)

Old Catalan clitics (13th - 15th century)

27

(25)

Clitic types

27

(7)

Clitic distribution

34

(5)

Striking features

39

(1)

Interpolation

39

(2)

Clitic climbing

41

(3)

Clitic doubling

44

(1)

Mesocliticization

45

(5)

Summary

50

(2)

Clitics in the Decadencia (16th - 18th century)

52

(13)

Clitic types

52

(2)

Clitic distribution

54

(3)

Striking features

57

(1)

Interpolation

57

(1)

Clitic climbing

58

(2)

Clitic doubling

60

(1)

Mesocliticization

61

(2)

Summary

63

(2)

Clitics in the Renaixenca (19th century)

65

(6)

Clitic types

65

(1)

Clitic distribution

66

(2)

Striking features

68

(1)

Summary

69

(2)

Modern Catalan clitics (20th century)

71

(9)

Clitic types

71

(4)

Clitic distribution

75

(2)

Striking features

77

(2)

Summary

79

(1)

Synopsis

80

(13)

Catalan clitic development (13th - 20th century)

80

(1)

Catalan clitic types

80

(1)

Catalan clitic distribution

81

(1)

Striking features of Catalan clitics

82

(1)

Other Romance languages over the centuries

83

(2)

Clitic distribution

85

(3)

Striking features

88

(5)

Recent analyses and their problems

Introduction

93

(1)

Prosodic analyses

94

(22)

Last resort movement triggered by PF

95

(9)

Reordering of constituents on PF

104

(7)

Phonological Filter

111

(4)

Summary

115

(1)

Syntactic approaches

116

(14)

Verb movement

117

(6)

Clitic movement

123

(7)

Summary

130

(1)

Synopsis

130

(3)

Rethinking the Tobler-Mussafia law

Introduction

133

(1)

Problems for the phonological analyses

133

(7)

Reservations

133

(1)

Main considerations

134

(5)

Strong arguments against purely prosodic accounts

139

(1)

Problems for the syntactical analyses

140

(7)

Considerations

141

(1)

Strong arguments against a verb-second analysis

142

(5)

Casting doubts...

147

(9)

On the Tobler-Mussafia law

147

(6)

On the phrasal character of clitic pronouns

153

(3)

Summary

156

(3)

Seeking an analysis

Introduction

159

(1)

The making-up of syntax

160

(23)

A particular category

163

(5)

Adopting Σ into a Minimalist framework

168

(2)

Empirical evidence from the Romance languages in general

170

(4)

Empirical evidence from Old Catalan

174

(9)

The work left for phonology

183

(9)

Late lexical insertion

188

(1)

Conditioned allomorphy

189

(3)

Summary

192

(3)

Explaining the changes

Introduction

195

(1)

Diachronic instability

195

(4)

A tentative approach

199

(7)

Variation at the level of individuals

199

(2)

Language change within a Minimalist framework

201

(3)

Change in and diffusion of the Catalan clitic distribution

204

(2)

Summary

206

(3)

Appendix

209

(6)

Notes

215

(14)

References

229

(20)

Index

249

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The Catalan Clitic System

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