Elsewhere in Romance: Evidence from Clitic Clusters

Clitic climbing in Romance: "Restructuring", causatives, and object-control verbs

"Restructuring" in Romance refers to constructions which appear to violate Standard locality constraints, thereby presenting a challenge for syntactic theory. One of the most well-studied cases of restructuring is that of clitic climbing. This is illustrated in the Italian example (la), in which the clitic lo, the apparent object of leggere, appears on the higher verb vuole. As shown in (lb), i...

Clitic Climbing and Tense Auxiliaries in Polish and Romance

The aim of this paper is to compare the behaviour of Polish and Romance pronominal clitics in tense auxiliary constructions and to account for Polish facts. First, we present the system of Polish auxiliaries, briefly comparing it to Romance. Then, we discuss clitic climbing (CC), the phenomenon well-known in Romance. We contrast Polish CC with CC in Italian and French. Finally, we present a for...

Are object omissions in Romance object clitic omissions?

Clitic Climbing in Polish Verb Clusters: an HPSG Approach

The aim of this paper is to compare clitic climbing (CC) in Polish and Romance and then provide an HPSG account of CC in Polish. We discuss CC in the complementizerless verbal complexes, which we call verb clusters (VC). Both the behaviour of Polish clitics and properties of VC are different in Polish and Romance. Although we apply (‘standard’ for HPSG) lexical encoding to account for CC, our a...

Gestural Timing and the Resolution of / C / Clusters in Romance