Slovenian Clitic Pronouns and What is so Special about Them

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  • Boštjan Dvořák Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/SLS.6.1.11

Keywords:

syntax, clitics

Abstract

 Whereas within the vast majority of languages with any difference between the strong and weak pronouns (like in the southern Slavic) as to their use and occurrence, clitic pronouns show a rather regular behaviour according to syntactic rules and phonological dependencies, the situation in Slovenian may be considered as extremely different in that they not only do not necessarily follow the respective clitic properties, but even clearly contradict them.

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Published

2025-02-12

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Dvořák, B. (2025). Slovenian Clitic Pronouns and What is so Special about Them. Slovenski Jezik / Slovene Linguistic Studies, 6, 209–233. https://doi.org/10.3986/SLS.6.1.11

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