Clitics in Slavic

0. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................  2 1. Some general thoughts on Slavic clitics .....................................................................................  3 2. Second position clitics ..................................................................................................................  4 2.1. The Serbo-Croatian puzzle .................................................................................................  4 2.2. Two basic approaches ..........................................................................................................  6 2.2.1. Prosodic inversion ....................................................................................................  7 2.2.2. Head movement to C° ...........................................................................................  11 2.3. Some syntactic effects ........................................................................................................  13 2.3.1. Movement ...............................................................................................................  13 2.3.2. Splitting ....................................................................................................................  16 2.3.3. Names ......................................................................................................................  21 2.4. Clitics as functional heads .................................................................................................  22 2.4.1. Basic phrase structure and overview of the analysis ........................................  22 2.4.2. Where do 2P clitics go? ..........................................................................................  23 2.5. Some phonological effects .................................................................................................  27 2.6. A minimalist divistion of labor: syntax composes, phonology disposes ...................  28 2.6.1. Syntax: making clitics move .................................................................................  29 2.6.2. PF: prononouncing the right copy .......................................................................  30 2.7. Variations on a theme: other second position languages .............................................  33 2.7.1. Slovenian .................................................................................................................  33 2.7.2. Czech ........................................................................................................................  37 3. Some potential problems ...........................................................................................................  40 3.1. Ordering templates: accident or design? ........................................................................  40 3.1.1. Idiosyncratic heads ................................................................................................  40 3.1.2. Clitic climbing and cluster splitting ....................................................................  43 3.2. Ellipsis in Serbo-Croatian ..................................................................................................  46 3.3. Particles in Czech ...............................................................................................................  47 4. Verb adjacent clitics ....................................................................................................................  48 4.1. Some basic facts: Macedonian vs. Bulgarian ..................................................................  49 4.2. More variations on a theme: the verb comes to the clitics ...........................................  50 4.3. Ways of getting “clitic + verb” .........................................................................................  53 4.3.1. Movement possibilities ..........................................................................................  53 4.3.2. Linearization in PF .................................................................................................  54 4.4. Phonology can’t be all there is: Macedonian vs. Bulgarian redux ..............................  55 4.4.1. Imperatives and gerunds ......................................................................................  55 4.4.2. Clitics in DPs ...........................................................................................................  60 4.5. Syntax can’t be all there is either ......................................................................................  71 5. Excursus on Polish clitics ...........................................................................................................  76 STEVEN FRANKS 2