Clitic placement and the Anti-V2 effect in European Portuguese
Insights from uninflected verbs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17823716 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Sheehan (0000-0002-8072-4847, Newcastle University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-04-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistic Variation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2211-6834 • E-ISSN: 2211-6842 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/lv.24058.she |
| OpenAlex | W7154119301 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Clitic placement with European Portuguese uninflected verbs is problematic for prosodic analyses. While ‘proclisis triggers’ give rise to obligatory proclisis with inflected verbs, they often lead to optional proclisis/enclisis with uninflected verbs ( Raposo & Uriagereka 2008 ), except for aspectual/quantificational adverbials with head-like behaviour ( Martins 2013a ). These patterns provide support for a syntactic ‘Anti-V2 requirement’, whereby clitics usually raise to adjoin to T and either: (a) an XP raises to/through spec FinP and the verb stays in Asp (resulting in proclisis); or (b) the verb raises through T to Fin (resulting in enclisis); but not both (building on Fernández-Rubiera 2009 , 2010 ). The special behaviour of uninflected infinitives can be explained by the possibility of clitics attaching to a lower verbal host and then moving with that host to T resulting in enclisis ( Raposo and Uriagereka 2008 ). Aspectual/quantificational heads block verb movement to T, ruling out enclisis via ‘low fusion’
Agreement · Brazilian Portuguese · Clitic · European Portuguese · Modal verb · Portuguese · Verb · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |