A New Look at Czech Clitics and Their Position
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The talk examines Czech second-position clitics, arguing that their fixed order (auxiliary > dative > accusative) reflects a universal hierarchy of features: person > case > tense. Based on Caha’s (2009) case hierarchy, we propose that each clitic occupies a distinct syntactic head rather than forming a single clitic phrase. Czech evidence such as adverbial interruption supports this view, suggesting that case is assigned high, above tense. |
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