Resumen de Subject clitics: Syntax

Cecilia Poletto, Christina Tortora

• The main goal of this chapter is critically to address from a comparative perspective some of the most important issues regarding the syntax of Romance subject clitics as currently found in northern and southern Gallo-Romance varieties, Francoprovençal, Raeto-Romance, and the dialects of northern Italy and northern Tuscany. Specific topics dealt with include: what counts as a subject clitic language?; person subject clitics; nmber subject clitics; deictic subject clitics; invariable subject clitics; lack of subject clitics in imperatives; enclisis of subject clitics in interrogatives and other non-declarative clauses; subject relative clauses; expletive environments; verb class; subject identification; position of the subject; type of subject; null subject (pro); tonic pronoun; full noun phrase; quantifier phrases; functions unrelated to the identification of a subject; place holders; auxiliary clitics; OCL-for-SCL phenomenon; left-peripheral functions.