| Description |
1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 160 |
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 160.
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| Contents |
The properties of Greek clitics and their structural analysis -- Internal structure of clitics and cliticization -- Derivation of proclisis -- Patterns of proclisis/enclisis and the role of V-movement -- Enclisis in Greek: the role of CM in deriving enclisis |
| Summary |
This monograph investigates the morpho-syntactic and other properties of clitic pronouns in Greek and offers a grammar of proclisis and enclisis in light of Chomsky's (1995, 2001a, 2005) Minimalist Program. It explores the nature of clitics as syntactic topicalizers which are probed by structurally higher verbal heads to which they move and into which they incorporate morpho-syntactically. A theory is advanced according to which cliticization derives from syntactic agreement between (the phi-features of) a clitic pronoun and a phase head, v* in the case of proclisis and CM in the case of encli |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Greek language, Modern -- Clitics
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Greek language, Modern -- Enclitics
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Greek (Modern)
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Greek language, Modern -- Clitics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010014657 |
| ISBN |
9789027288035 |
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9027288038 |
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1282775081 |
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9781282775084 |
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9786612775086 |
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6612775084 |
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