Barbu, Roxana-Maria & Toivonen, Ida: Romanian Object Clitics: Grammaticalization, agreement and lexical splits
Direct object clitics in Modern Standard Romanian display different properties depending on whether or not they double an object. This paper proposes a dual analysis for the clitics: they function as agreement makers when they double an object and as pronouns when they stand alone. Furthermore, the lexical entries differ beyond the presence or absence of pronominal referential features, and this accounts for the `split' behavior. The analysis is placed in its historical context, and then extended to other varieties of Romanian. Finally, it will be argued that the Romanian lexical split is not an isolated phenomenon: multiple similar splits can be found in the typology of agreement marking.
December 22, 2022 |
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