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“Subject” clitics and particles in Provençal
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Benincà, Paola |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Several Occitan dialects spoken in Western Piedmont exhibit no 1sg subject clitic form (a situation widely attested in Northern Italian dialects), although interrogative clauses with a 1sg subject feature an enclitic particle ke, identical to the complementiser. Many attempts have been made to interpret this ke as a reflex of Lat. E(G)O ‘I’ or originating from the reanalysis of the analogical -k displayed by verbs such as dik ‘I say’. Rather, I claim that ke is what it seems, namely the complementiser, and entertain the hypothesis that in these varieties the complementiser ended up satisfying EPP-like features. To support this analysis, I examine data from a wider area including Provençal, Gascon and Ibero-Romance dialects in which the complementiser is used as a proclitic particle in assertive clauses (Etxepare 2010 a.o.). On the theoretical side, I submit the hypothesis that the peculiar behaviour of the complementiser ke in that area has to do with the checking of a ‘speaker’ feature in the left periphery of the clause. |
| Related Links | http://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/prbs.2014.26.issue-2/probus-2014-0007/probus-2014-0007.xml |
| Ending Page | 215 |
| Page Count | 33 |
| Starting Page | 183 |
| ISSN | 09214771 |
| e-ISSN | 16134079 |
| DOI | 10.1515/probus-2014-0007 |
| Journal | Probus |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 26 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
| Publisher Date | 2014-09-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Probus Language Studies Clitics Particles Complementisers Pro-drop Pragmatic Functions 'speaker' Features Journal: Probus, Vol- 26 |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Linguistics and Language |
