Clitics and Clause Structure: The Late Medieval Greek System
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In Condoravdi & Kiparsky 2001 we traced two paths of grammaticalization in the evolution of Greek clause structure: the reduction of Wackernagel (X) clitic pronouns to word-level affixes via an intermediate stage of word-level (X) clitics, and the emergence of auxiliaries and mood markers as heads of new functional projections. The two trajectories are connected in that the positioning of X clitic pronouns responds to changes in the clausal syntax, thereby providing a diagnostic for the emergence of the articulated Infl projection previously posited for standard Modern Greek (Tsimpli 1995, Tsimpli & Roussou 1996, Giannakidou 1998, among others), and confirmed by our findings for other modern dialects and for Late Medieval Greek.
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Clitics and Clause Structure
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