Serbian clitics / Jasmina Milicevic, Dalhousie University & OLST, University of Montreal.
| Author/creator | Milićević, Jasmina, 1960- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023] |
| Description | xxiii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Studies in language companion series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; volume 229 |
| Contents | 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 -- 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 -- Chapter 6. Morphological makeup of Serbian clitics -- Chapter 7. Serbian clitics as a challenge for the linguistic theory -- Concluding remarks. |
| Abstract | "Clitics, those "funny little words" like English contracted future tense and pluperfect tense/conditional mood markers ('ll and 'd) or French pronominal objects (le 'him', la 'her', lui 'to him/her', etc.), have long been a source of fascination for linguists. Lacking an inherent stress that characterizes "well-behaved" words, clitics prosodically depend on a stressed sentence element, called their host, which makes them look and, in some contexts, behave like affixes (parts of words). Some clitics, Serbian second-position clitics being the case in point, also obey stringent linear ordering rules, different from those holding for fully-fledged sentence elements. 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. It will be of interest for general linguists, Slavists, and advanced learners of Serbian"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-162) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022048097 |
| ISBN | 9789027212979 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (eBook) |
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