Pronominal Clitics Attaching to Topics

Previously, I set forth three sets of data that make up the difficult examples of pronominal clitics. In this post, we will examine that data more closely look specifically at those pronominal clitics that attach to topical constituents. If these examples truly fit my basic claim about the prominence of the prosodic phrases the clitics [...]

Where have I been?

I really don’t know. I’ve been focused on working on highly technical posts, nothing else has happened on this blog. Between researching and studying pronominal clitics and slowly and surely building up my morphological parser, I just haven’t had time for much else in my free time. In terms of work, though, I am now [...]

Pronominal Clitics: The Difficult Examples

0In our previous post, we looked at a variety of examples of pronominal clitics in noun phrases and their phonological & syntactic distribution. Primarily, we saw that the clitic pronoun consistently attached itself to the most prominent phonological phrase possible while also maintaining grammaticality within its syntactic domain. Thus, we saw clitics appearing in the [...]