Clitic Climbing

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ID23679752
AutoresAroldo De Andrade (0000-0002-1354-7916, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)), Reineke Bok‐Bennema (University of Groningen)
Ano2017
Páginas1-56
Data de publicação2017-11-24
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoOTHER
PeriódicoThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition (JOURNAL)
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118358733.wbsyncom107
OpenAlexW4248476989
ISBN9781118358733
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas59

Clitic climbing, the phenomenon where a clitic pronoun selected by a complement verb attaches to a host verb, is found in a number of languages. In this chapter its properties (such as the types of host verbs, the temporal properties of the infinitival domain, and the degree of adjacency between host and complement verb) and interactions with a series of “transparency effects” (such as Long DP Movement, Long Null Operator Movement, and Auxiliary Shift) are critically reviewed in various Romance languages. From there the chapter explains the traditional account for clitic climbing in a transformational framework, where it was seen as the output of two rules: Restructuring and Clitic placement. It then explores different lines of approaches for its derivation, in the Government and Binding framework and in the Minimalist Program. These crucially involve assuming one of these operations or structures: head movement; VP movement to the edge of the complement domain; the optional status of the host verb, as an auxiliary verb or as a lexical verb; the consistent auxiliary status of the host verb. From there, the implications of some these analyses for cross‐linguistic and intralinguistic variation are discussed. The chapter concludes with: a summary of the main characteristics of clitic climbing and a list of topics for further research.

Clitic · Complement (music) · Complementizer · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Verb · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation