| Abstrakt: |
Longer periods of scientific research are often characterized by a cluster of topics of general interest. These topics tend to originate as side-issues, to develop by common consent into independent areas of research, characterized by case-studies of some depth. In formal generative linguistics, one of the current topics is the study of clitic-phenomena in natural languages. Taking as its point of departure WARBURTON'S study of Greek clitics in. JoL 13 (1977), this article aims to show that—first—W.'s transformational analysis cannot be maintained within the recent theory of government-binding (CHOMSKY 1981), which is motivated qua clitic behaviour mainly through the study of Romance and Semitic languages (JAEGGLI 1980, BORER 1981), and that—second—W.'s data are a unique illustration of one of the parameters of this theory, the option of local case-assignment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
