Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: In late Medieval Greek and many modern dialects, pronominal clitics are syntactically adjoined to an IP projection. In another set of dialects they have become syntactically adjoined to a verbal head. In the most innovating dialects (which include Standard Greek) they are agreement affixes. Extending the Fontana/Halpern clitic typology, we propose a trajectory of lexicalization from X max clitics via X 0 clitics to lexical affixes. The evolution of clitic placement also reveals the rise of a composite functional projection ΣP. In late Medieval Greek and many modern dialects, pronominal clitics are syntactically adjoined to an IP projection. In another set of dialects they have become syntactically adjoined to a verbal head. In the most innovating dialects (which include Standard Greek) they are agreement affixes. Extending the Fontana/Halpern clitic typology, we propose a trajectory of lexicalization from Xmax clitics via X0 clitics to lexical affixes. The evolution of clitic placement also reveals the rise of a composite functional projection þP.
Source: Journal of Greek Linguistics
DOI: 10.1075/jgl.2.02con
Authors: Cleo Condoravdi, Paul Kiparsky
Institutions: Palo Alto Research Center, Stanford University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $533
OpenAlex ID: W2020566530