On Syntactic and Prosodic Domains of Clitic Placement in Slovene.

Abstract

Slovene (or Slovenian) is a South Slavic language closely related to Bulgarian, Macedonian, and the continuum of language varieties now commonly referred to as Bosnian/Croatian/(possibly)Montenegrin/Serbian but which were once known uniformly as Serbo-Croatian.2 The rich inflectional system characteristic of Slovene includes an array of "special" sentential clitics (in the sense of Anderson [1992]; cf. Zwicky [1977]) similar to those found in Serbo-Croatian. Clitics in Slovene, whether alone or in a cluster of two or more, are generally characterized in traditional grammars as appearing in second position (2P) after the first syntactic constituent of a sentence. In (1),3 for example, the clitic