Clitics are merged in specific syntactic positions in Italian clause structure
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Linguistic analysis of Italian dialects confirms that clitics merge at specific structural points corresponding to their syntactic and denotational properties.
... Italian (7), where the locative is in R, with (3), where it is in Loc. We take it that in the case of (3) and (7), the Loc merger point is straightforwardly justified by the denotational content of the clitic; we concep- tualize the R ...
Examining the morphosyntax of dialetics comprising Italy, Corsica and the Italian and Romantic-speaking areas of Switzerland, this original and innovative analysis presents previously unknown or understudied data from a variety of Romance dialects.