Resumen de Object clitics
Susann Fischer, Maria Goldbach
This chapter provides an overview of the phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic properties of Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish object clitic pronouns, before discussing some of the most prominent generative approaches that have been suggested in order to explain the distribution and behaviour of object clitics in Romance. Since this overview can of course not be exhaustive, the chapter seeks to present the main questions that have been asked and the main di ffi culties the approaches have been confronted with. The discussion focuses on the fact that various components of grammar – syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics – and the interfaces between these, are involved in describing and analysing Romance clitics.
