Clitics in Slavic

0. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 2 1. Some general thoughts on Slavic clitics ..................................................................................... 3 2. Second position clitics .................................................................................................................. 4 2.1. The Serbo-Croatian puzzle ................................................................................................. 4 2.2. Two basic approaches .......................................................................................................... 6 2.2.1. Prosodic inversion .................................................................................................... 7 2.2.2. Head movement to C° ........................................................................................... 11 2.3. Some syntactic effects ........................................................................................................ 13 2.3.1. Movement ............................................................................................................... 13 2.3.2. Splitting .................................................................................................................... 16 2.3.3. Names ...................................................................................................................... 21 2.4. Clitics as functional heads ................................................................................................. 22 2.4.1. Basic phrase structure and overview of the analysis ........................................ 22 2.4.2. Where do 2P clitics go? .......................................................................................... 23 2.5. Some phonological effects ................................................................................................. 27 2.6. A minimalist divistion of labor: syntax composes, phonology disposes ................... 28 2.6.1. Syntax: making clitics move ................................................................................. 29 2.6.2. PF: prononouncing the right copy ....................................................................... 30 2.7. Variations on a theme: other second position languages ............................................. 33 2.7.1. Slovenian ................................................................................................................. 33 2.7.2. Czech ........................................................................................................................ 37 3. Some potential problems ........................................................................................................... 40 3.1. Ordering templates: accident or design? ........................................................................ 40 3.1.1. Idiosyncratic heads ................................................................................................ 40 3.1.2. Clitic climbing and cluster splitting .................................................................... 43 3.2. Ellipsis in Serbo-Croatian .................................................................................................. 46 3.3. Particles in Czech ............................................................................................................... 47 4. Verb adjacent clitics .................................................................................................................... 48 4.1. Some basic facts: Macedonian vs. Bulgarian .................................................................. 49 4.2. More variations on a theme: the verb comes to the clitics ........................................... 50 4.3. Ways of getting “clitic + verb” ......................................................................................... 53 4.3.1. Movement possibilities .......................................................................................... 53 4.3.2. Linearization in PF ................................................................................................. 54 4.4. Phonology can’t be all there is: Macedonian vs. Bulgarian redux .............................. 55 4.4.1. Imperatives and gerunds ...................................................................................... 55 4.4.2. Clitics in DPs ........................................................................................................... 60 4.5. Syntax can’t be all there is either ...................................................................................... 71 5. Excursus on Polish clitics ........................................................................................................... 76 STEVEN FRANKS 2