This contribution deals with the make-up of Italo-Romance clitic sequences. Building on Kayne (1994), I will argue that some clitic combinations are clusters in which one clitic is left-adjoined to the other, while others are split sequences formed by adjacent clitic heads. In particular, on the basis of morphological evidence, I will argue that clusters are formed via a process of root incorporation. Evidence supporting this view comes from both diachronic and synchronic data. Diachronically, I argue that the emergence of cluster configurations resulted in a change reversing the order of certain clitic combinations (roughly, from accusative > dative to dative > accusative). Synchronically, clusters differ from split combinations as the latter can be marginally separated.
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Pescarini, Diego. 2010. “Elsewhere in Romance: Evidence from Clitic Clusters”. Linguistic Inquiry 41:3.427–444.
Pescarini, Diego. 2014. “Prosodic restructuring and morphological opacity. The evolution of Italo-Romance clitic clusters”. Diachrony and Dialects: Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy ed. by Adam Ledgeway, Nigel Vincent & Paola Benincà. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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2021. Historical overview. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 63 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Romance Object Clitics,
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Morphophonological evidence against deficiency. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 135 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Clitic combinations. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 267 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Clitic climbing. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 235 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. The rise ofadverbalclitics. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 165 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Deriving enclisis in ‘V1’ clauses. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 213 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Conclusions. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 295 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. ‘V2’ and clitic placement. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 183 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Syntactic evidence against deficiency. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 107 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Theoretical preliminaries. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 35 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Introduction. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 1 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Properties of Romance object clitics. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 11 ff.
Pescarini, Diego
2021. Clitics in embryo. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. 151 ff.
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2021. Series preface. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. ix ff.
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2021. List of abbreviations. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. xiii ff.
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2021. Copyright Page. In Romance Object Clitics, ► pp. iv ff.
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