Position of Polish Clitics: An HPSG Approach
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The aim of this paper is to provide an HPSG analysis of linear positions of Polish pronominal clitics.1 The distribution of Polish clitics, though rather free, is more constrained than that of other NPs. Polish clitics either occur preverbally or must closely follow the verb. We treat all Polish pronominal clitics as syntactic items and propose an LP constraint to account for their distribution. This constraint uniformly accounts both for preverbal and postverbal positions of clitics. Moreover, it captures the adjacency contrast between preverbal and postverbal positions of clitics. We briefly compare our approach with two possible alternatives: an analysis based on the lexical weight, cf. Abeille and Godard (1998), and on the topological fields of Kathol (1995). The former might turn out to be too general if lite items in Polish are not restricted to clitics only. The latter, on the other hand, seems too restrictive for a ‘free’ word order language like Polish.