On the Syntax of Pronominal Clitics: A View from Greek

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2019

Patricia Schneider-Zioga

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Mónica Cabrera and

José Camacho

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Mónica Cabrera: Affiliation:
Loyola Marymount University, California
José Camacho: Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey

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In her exploration of the left edge of the clause and its interaction with discourse-related functions such as questions, topic, and focus, Zubizarreta closely examined the frontier between TP and CP in Romance languages. One result of her research in this area was the discovery of a dedicated position in this region “whose function is to ‘externalize’ an argument of a verb v with respect to the tense associated with v” (Zubizarreta, 1999, p. 256). Zubizarreta called this projection the CL(itic)-phrase (1999) and, later, the phi-phrase (2007). She proposed that “clitics and strong agr are the morphological manifestation of an abstract Cl[itic] position” (Zubizarreta, 1999, p. 272). That is, if pronominal clitics or strong agreement occur in a language, then CL occurs. Her work sheds light on the syntax of clitic left-dislocated expressions, and other expressions on the left periphery such as preverbal subjects and Wh-operators in languages that have pronominal clitics and/or strong agreement.

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