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Title Clitic doubling in the Balkan languages / edited by Dalina Kallulli, Liliane Tasmowski.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 442 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today ; v. 130
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 130.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Clitic doubling, core syntax and the interfaces*; 1. Clitic doubling and its theoretical significance; 2. The Balkan patterns and their theoretical significance; 3. Further challenges, approaches and perspectives; 4. Conclusion; 5. The organization of the volume; References; Part I Clitic doubling within the Balkan continuum: Rise and spread; Balkan object reduplication in areal and dialectological perspective*; Towards grammaticalization of clitic doubling.
Summary This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in Romance languages, with the Balkan patterns coming increasingly into focus. Since the mid-nineties, these patterns presented a variety of challenges to the generalisations reached on the basis of Romance, while also raising new research questions. The volume deals among other things with the following a.
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Subject Balkan Peninsula -- Languages -- Clitics.
Balkan Peninsula.
Language and languages.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Kallulli, Dalina.
Tasmowski, Liliane.
Other Form: Print version: Clitic doubling in the Balkan languages. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008 (DLC) 2008019877
ISBN 9789027255136 (Cloth)
902725513X (Cloth)
9789027289896 (electronic book)
9027289891 (electronic book)
128210456X
9781282104563