The Catalan Clitic System

The book is a qualitative and quantitative investigation into the Catalan clitic system from Old to Modern Catalan. Building on the Minimalist Program, the author shows that a number of facts about Old Romance clitic placement that previously have either not been accounted for or have received unsatisfactory treatment can be explained in a principled way once a strict division of labor between syntax and phonology is adopted.

Contenu

Chapter 1 Methodological and theoretical issues

Chapter 2 Clitic syntax from Old Catalan to Modern Catalan

Chapter 3 Recent analyses and their problems

Chapter 4 Rethinking the Tobler-Mussafia law

Chapter 5 Seeking an analysis

Chapter 6 Explaining the changes