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Band 5:
Fischer, Susann: The Catalan Clitic System. XIV/252 S. - Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 2003.
ISBN: 978-3-11-017613-1
Alternatives Medium:
E-Book (PDF). Berlin / New York: de Gruyter. ISBN: 978-3-11-089250-5

The book is a qualitative and quantitative investigation into the Catalan clitic system from Old to Modern Catalan. Building on the Minimalist Program, the author shows that a number of facts about Old Romance clitic placement that previously have either not been accounted for or have received unsatisfactory treatment can be explained in a principled way once a strict division of labor between syntax and phonology is adopted.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Methodological and theoretical issues
1.   Introduction S. 1
2.   Aims and hypotheses of the book S. 5
3.   Philological issues and methodological problems in the study of syntactic change S. 9
4.   The texts used to form the data base S. 14
Chapter 2: Clitic syntax from Old Catalan to Modern Catalan
1.   Introduction S. 23
2.   Latin to medieval Romance S. 24
3.   Old Catalan clitics (13th -15th century) S. 27
4.   Clitics in the Decadencia (16th – 18th century) S. 52
5.   Clitics in the Renaixença (19th century) S. 65
6.   Modern Catalan clitics (20th century) S. 71
7.   Synopsis S. 80
Chapter 3: Recent analyses and their problems
1.   Introduction S. 93
2.   Prosodic analyses S. 94
3.   Syntactic approaches S. 116
4.   Synopsis S. 130
Chapter 4: Rethinking the Tobler-Mussafia law
1.   Introduction S. 133
2.   Problems for the phonological analyses S. 133
3.   Problems for the syntactical analyses S. 140
4.   Casting doubts… S. 147
5.   Summary S. 156
Chapter 5: Seeking an analysis
1.   Introduction S. 159
2.   The making-up of syntax S. 160
3.   The work left for phonology S. 183
4.   Summary S. 192
Chapter 6: Explaining the changes
1.   Introduction S. 195
2.   Diachronic instability S. 195
3.   A tentative approach S. 199
4.   Summary S. 206
 
Appendix S. 209
Notes S. 215
References S. 229
Index S. 249