Getting in the first word: Prosody and predicate initial sentences in Serbian

Second position clitics in Serbian are informally characterized in terms of their hosts which correspond to either the first word or the first phrase within some clitic positioning domain. Serbian is a free constituent order language, with a default SVO order, but with predicate initial orders in th...

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Main Authors: Molly Diesing, Draga Zec
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2017-03-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:http://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/204