Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Slawistik und Hungarologie

07.11. Luka Szucsich (HU Berlin): Why ^okza me ‘for me’ but *od me ‘from me’: Are there PP-internal clitics in Burgenland-Croatian?

In contrast to other Slavic languages (Abels 2003, 2012), Burgenland Croatian seems to allow clitics within PPs: za me ‘for me’, na te ‘on you’. I will show that these clitic-like pronouns are in fact strong, morphophonologically truncated pronouns, which also exhibit stress and tone retraction.

However, truncation of pronouns, which is accompanied by stress and tone retraction, is only possible with 1.sg and 2.sg in the accusative. With all other accusative pronouns, there is no truncation, and one can observe either stress and tone retraction (zá njega ‘for him’: associated stress shift), or there is only a retraction of the stress (zà nās ‘for us’: dissociated stress shift). In this talk, I will discuss the conditions for these processes and propose an analysis that makes use of morphosyntactic locality conditions.