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  • 17 - Placement and Ordering of the (En)clitics

  • from Part 3 - Syntax
  • Edited by Danko Šipka, Arizona State University, Wayles Browne, Cornell University, New York
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics
    Published online:
    16 May 2024
    Print publication:
    23 May 2024, pp 365-384

  • Summary

    This chapter presents an overview of some of the properties of Slavic clitics. In principle, clitics seem easy to identify: they are phonologically dependent functional elements that appear in a fixed, syntactically defined position in the clitic cluster but otherwise behave like other independent syntactic elements. But these characteristics are fraught with exceptions. We focus on these exceptions in the chapter to show that clitics, although lexically stressless, in certain contexts can be stressed; although they seem to have a fixed position in a sentence, they can appear in unexpected positions both within the clause and within the clitic cluster; although they are functional elements whose position is governed by universal principles, their positioning differs across Slavic languages, and, despite being syntactically independent elements, they occasionally disobey constraints that other syntactically independent elements typically obey.