Challenging Clitics
Edited by Christine Meklenborg Salvesen and Hans Petter Helland
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 206] 2013. vii, 315 pp.
Hans Petter Helland
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hans Petter Helland plays a role.
Title
Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2020 Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (2016): The Structure of Modern Standard French. A Student Grammar Revue Romane 55:2, pp. 342–349 | Review
2013 Non-finite adjuncts in French In Search of Universal Grammar: From Old Norse to Zoque, Lohndal, Terje (ed.), pp. 111–130 | Article
In this paper, I discuss the morphological build-up of the French gérondif en + V-ant and compare it to the present participle V-ant. On the basis of this discussion, en is to be treated as a prepositional complementizer just as de and à with infinitives. Arguments are given for a recategorization… read more
2013 Why challenging clitics? Some introductory remarks Challenging Clitics, Meklenborg Salvesen, Christine and Hans Petter Helland (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
Linguists have been drawn to the intriguing nature of clitics ever since the golden age of philology in the 19th century. In this paper we aim to provide a brief history of different approaches to clitics, from Wackernagel’s law to modern theories that link clitics to phases. We also present the… read more
2010 Control in a cross-linguistic perspective: French-Norwegian French Syntax in Contrast, Lahousse, Karen, Béatrice Lamiroy and Kristel Van Goethem (eds.), pp. 194–207 | Article
In this chapter, we examine control configurations in French gérondif clauses in which the referential properties of the implicit subject argument (PRO) have to be determined by contextual (linguistic and extra-linguistic) factors. We compare the control facts with parallel Norwegian translations.… read more