Interactions between Clitic Subjects and Objects in Piedmont and North Liguria Dialects

This contribution addresses a set of phenomena attested in the dialects spoken Piedmont, including Franco-Provençal and Occitan varieties, West Liguria, concerning interaction between subject object clitics. Complementarily to these phenomena, we find interplay realization 3rd person clitic auxiliary. More specifically, will investigate object-for-subject mechanism Piedmontese dialects, one subject-with-object some their possible with In alternation be have affects distribution clitics; particular, can occur all persons, where it ambiguous or reading. The relation verb its argumental clitics, auxiliaries clitics are main topics this work. Our approach relies on idea that φ-features associated v T not functional elements but verbs lexical properties. theoretical frame follow is formulation recently proposed by Chomsky, based operation Merge Labeling Algorithm, leading more appropriate conceptualization morpho-syntactic structures.