Variation and optionality in clitic climbing in Argentinean Spanish

Since Cinque’s (2006:31-32) four-way typology of languages in terms of clitic climbing (CC, herein), those in which CC displays optionality, such as Argentinean Spanish (ArgSp, herein), remain poorly understood. This paper aims to address this need. Here, we show that: (i) empirically, CC has remai...

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Autores principales:	Ioanna Sitaridou, Helen Whimpanny, Laura Ayres
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2015
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:685424c054d3415c8e43a2eef743a29f2021-11-25T11:16:50ZVariation and optionality in clitic climbing in Argentinean Spanish2385-4138https://doaj.org/article/685424c054d3415c8e43a2eef743a29f2015-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.es/isogloss/isogloss/article/view/21https://doaj.org/toc/2385-4138 Since Cinque’s (2006:31-32) four-way typology of languages in terms of clitic climbing (CC, herein), those in which CC displays optionality, such as Argentinean Spanish (ArgSp, herein), remain poorly understood. This paper aims to address this need. Here, we show that: (i) empirically, CC has remained a prevalent option in spoken ArgSp since its incipient stage (Davies 1995), yet at the same time we reveal significant diatopic variation in terms of optionality; (ii) theoretically, we capture this optionality partly in terms of ‘parametric hierarchies’ (Biberauer & Roberts 2012) with no considerable impact otherwise on any macro/meso-parameter in this variety. However, in order to fully explain our data, we postulate that the macro-parameter setting makes a Pool of Variants (in the spirit of Adger (2013) and Adger & Smith (2007)) available, in which there are options for CC spell out: proclisis on the matrix or enclisis on the embedded verb(s). Crucially these options do not yield interpretive effects and, therefore, the drive behind the clitic position is lexical. The probability with which one of the clitic spell out positions is selected is claimed to depend at least in part on frequency, behind which we expect a variety of sociolinguistic factors. Ioanna SitaridouHelen WhimpannyLaura AyresUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticleclitic climbingArgentinean SpanishoptionalityisoglossParametric Theorypool of variantsRomanic languagesPC1-5498Philology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENIsogloss, Vol 1, Iss 2 (2015)
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spellingShingle	clitic climbing Argentinean Spanish optionality isogloss Parametric Theory pool of variants Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Ioanna Sitaridou Helen Whimpanny Laura Ayres Variation and optionality in clitic climbing in Argentinean Spanish
description	Since Cinque’s (2006:31-32) four-way typology of languages in terms of clitic climbing (CC, herein), those in which CC displays optionality, such as Argentinean Spanish (ArgSp, herein), remain poorly understood. This paper aims to address this need. Here, we show that: (i) empirically, CC has remained a prevalent option in spoken ArgSp since its incipient stage (Davies 1995), yet at the same time we reveal significant diatopic variation in terms of optionality; (ii) theoretically, we capture this optionality partly in terms of ‘parametric hierarchies’ (Biberauer & Roberts 2012) with no considerable impact otherwise on any macro/meso-parameter in this variety. However, in order to fully explain our data, we postulate that the macro-parameter setting makes a Pool of Variants (in the spirit of Adger (2013) and Adger & Smith (2007)) available, in which there are options for CC spell out: proclisis on the matrix or enclisis on the embedded verb(s). Crucially these options do not yield interpretive effects and, therefore, the drive behind the clitic position is lexical. The probability with which one of the clitic spell out positions is selected is claimed to depend at least in part on frequency, behind which we expect a variety of sociolinguistic factors.
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title	Variation and optionality in clitic climbing in Argentinean Spanish
title_short	Variation and optionality in clitic climbing in Argentinean Spanish
title_full	Variation and optionality in clitic climbing in Argentinean Spanish
title_fullStr	Variation and optionality in clitic climbing in Argentinean Spanish
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Variation and optionality in clitic climbing in Argentinean Spanish

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