Clitic Doubling in a Doubling World: The Case of Argentinean Spanish Reconsidered (original) (raw)

2019

Abstract

In this chapter, we put Clitic Doubling (CD) into the broad perspective of pronominal doubling phenomena in Spanish. As a first step, in section 2, we describe some properties of this dialect that are relevant to the phenomena under study. Then, in section 3, we present a battery of diagnostics based on the interaction between CD and its prosodic/pragmatic effects, which let us demonstrate, against the current consensus, that Jaeggli-s (1982) observation regarding the dependency of CD on Differential Object Marking (DOM) i.e. Kayne-;s Generalization? holds in Argentinean Spanish. In addition, we provide a series of diagnostics concerning the interaction between CD and its syntactic/LF effects (Section 4). These diagnostics lead us to conclude that accusative CD is substantially different from both Clitic-Right Dislocation (CLRD) and Clitic-Left Dislocation (CLLD). In section 5, we present a novel analysis of CD that integrates the morphological effects of the phenomenon with its ...

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