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Anthi Revithiadou, Vassilios Spyropoulos

Greek object clitic pronouns: a typological survey of their grammatical properties

Keywords: clitic pronoun, clitic doubling, phonological word, person-case constraint

In this paper, we review the basic morphosyntactic and phonological properties of object clitic pronouns in Standard Greek. More specifically, we discuss the constraints on the combinatorial properties of clitic clusters and present evidence in support of the out-of-cycle adjunct status of clitic-doubled DP-objects. We then account for the distribution of object clitics with respect to the verb by means of a cliticization movement rule. Finally, we show that there is an asymmetry in the way object clitics are prosodically organized, depending on their position in relation to the verb. Being always a part of the phonological word of their verbal host, enclitics choose to incor-porate to it whereas proclitics opt for prosodic adjunction.

STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag

Print ISSN: 0942-2919
Volume: 61, 01/2008
Pages: 39 - 53

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