RomClitics

We love clitics.

General remarks

The status of clitics (syntactic word vs. bound morpheme) is problematic. Most Romance clitics have the properties of bound affixes but for primarily orthographic considerations, the Delph-In Romance grammars realize clitics in syntax (exceptions: post-verbal clitics in Spanish and French).

Issues to be addressed:

• determining pre- vs. post-verbal position
• allomorphy and ordering constraints in clitic clusters
• clitic climbing
• clitic doubling
• the syntactic deficiency of clitics (restrictions on coordination, modification, distribution)
• subcategorization issues (complements that must be / must not be cliticized)

Spanish

Portuguese

French

Modern Greek