NDLI: Clitic doubling at the syntax-morphophonology interface : A-movement and morphological merger in Bulgarian

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Author	Harizav, Boris
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	True clitic doubling involves multiple expression of a single argument in different structural positions. In clitic doubling configurations of this kind, a clitic expresses features of its full nominal phrase associate in argument position. True clitic doubling has traditionally been argued to arise via agreement, so that the clitic is the manifestation of an agreement relation between a verb and the associate. However, another possibility exists: the clitic could be a (pro)nominal element related to the associate via movement; then, clitic doubling involves the simultaneous realization of both the head and the foot of a movement chain. Here, I argue for the latter analysis, showing that true clitic doubling, at least in Bulgarian, has the properties of movement—i.e., it does not involve agreement, as is standardly assumed for this language. I provide support for this claim by considering a number of diagnostics which distinguish between clitics that reflect agreement processes and clitics that do not. Specifically, I argue that the clitic is a reduced articulation of the higher occurrence of a raised object. Thus, the proposed analysis treats clitic doubling as an interface phenomenon which results from the interaction of two independently motivated operations of the syntactic and morphophonological components of grammar: A-movement and morphological merger.
Starting Page	1033
Ending Page	1088
Page Count	56
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0167806X
Journal	Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
Volume Number	32
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15730859
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-07-02
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Clitic doubling Agreement A-movement Morphological merger Bulgarian Linguistics (general) Language Translation and Linguistics Philosophy of Language
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language

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