Crossing phasal domains
Roberta D'Alessandro
February 2022
 

Resumptive strategies and topic marking have often been attributed to processing needs: you need an element to keep track of what you have dislocated. In this paper, I wish to entertain the hypothesis that doubling and marking are syntactic strategies that serve to mark domain crossing; more specifically, they mark PIC-induced domain crossing. Some data regarding an asymmetry between subject and object clitics will be considered and explained through this intuition. I will present data from some Romance varieties, most notably Italo-Romance, to show that this intuition might be on the right track.
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Reference: lingbuzz/006016
(please use that when you cite this article)
Published in: in Boneh, N., Harbour, D., Matushansky, O & I. Roy (eds). 2022. Building on Babel's rubble. Presses Universitaires de Vincennes
keywords: clitic resumption, subject clitics, object clitics, topicalization, pic, syntax
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