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    Clitics at the edge : clitic placement in Western Iberian Romance languages

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    Fernandez-Rubiera, Francisco Jose.
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    Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2009.; Includes bibliographical references. This dissertation focuses on the distribution of pre- and postverbal clitic alternations in both matrix and finite embedded environments, in three Western Iberian Romance languages: Galician, European Portuguese, and Asturian. The analysis of these clitic alternations in Romance has a long tradition within the generative enterprise, and different analyses have capitalized on different triggers to account for those alternations.; In this study, I show that the inclusion of Asturian raises interesting issues for analyses dealing with clitic placement alternations. In short, while pre- and postverbal clitic patterns in all Western Iberian Romance languages are subject to the same conditions in the matrix environment, crosslinguistic differences arise the moment one turns to the finite embedded one: In Asturian, unlike in Galician and European Portuguese, postverbal clitics arise obligatorily after a Topic in finite embedded contexts as that in (1).; In this dissertation, I argue that pre- and postverbal clitic alternations in Western Iberian Romance languages may be captured as follows: in Western Iberian, Finiteness (cf. Rizzi (1997)) is a phase-head (cf. Chomsky (2008)) which (i) is responsible for the different clitic patterns, and (ii) is the locus of crosslinguistic variation in the finite embedded context. Under this analysis, I show that both similarities in clitic alternations in the matrix context and the noted variation in the finite embedded one in this group of languages can be easily captured. Moreover, I claim that this analysis can naturally explain the interpretation differences I observe between a postverbal and preverbal pattern in (2a) and (2b).
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    Date Published
    2009
    Subject
    Bable dialect--Clitics; Galician language--Clitics; Portuguese language--Clitics
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    thesis
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    Georgetown University
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