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The book is a qualitative and quantitative investigation into the Catalan clitic system from Old to Modern Catalan.

Catalan language --- -Romance languages --- Clitics --- -Clitics --- Romance languages --- Clitics. --- Phonetics.

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Grammar --- Italian language --- Clitics.

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The first book to cover the grammar of clitics from all points of view, including their phonology, morphology, and syntax, and the first comprehensive survey of clitic phenomena for twenty years. Written with exceptional clarity and based on a course given to graduate students.

Linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Clitics. --- Clitics (Grammar) --- Accents and accentuation --- Tagmemics --- Clitics --- Philology

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French language --- Grammar --- Portuguese language --- Clitics. --- Pronoun.

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This book offers an empirical and theoretical exploration of the development of object clitic pronouns in the Romance languages, drawing on data from Latin, medieval vernaculars, modern Romance languages, and lesser-known dialects. Diego Pescarini examines phonological, morphological, and especially syntactic aspects of Romance object clitics, using the findings to reconstruct their evolution from Latin to Romance and to model clitic placement in modern Romance languages. On the theoretical side, the volume engages with previous accounts of clitics, particularly in generative theory. It challenges the received idea that cliticization resulted from a form of syntactic deficiency; instead, it proposes that clitics resulted from the feature endowment of discourse features, which initially caused freezing of certain pronominal forms and then - through reanalysis - their successive incorporation to verbal hosts. This approach leads to a revision of earlier analyses of well-known phenomena such as interpolation, climbing, and enclisis/proclisis alternations, and to new approaches to issues including V2 syntax, scrambling, and stylistic fronting, among many others.

Romance languages --- Clitics. --- Pronoun. --- Grammar, Comparative.