Abstract
In this chapter I investigate the syntax of clitic doubling constructions focusing on the question of variation within and across languages. In the course of the discussion, two different patterns of clitic doubling emerge, with different factors causing variation across languages in each case. In the first case – direct object (DO) clitic doubling – languages vary with respect to whether they permit it: (i) only with pronouns or also with DPs; (ii) with humans, animates, or also with inanimates; and (iii) with specific indefinites, partitives, or only definites. DO clitic doubling of DPs is generally optional (doubling of pronouns is in many cases obligatory). In the second case – indirect object (IO) doubling – languages vary with respect to whether (i) doubling is obligatory in the double object construction or (ii) doubling is optional in the double object construction. The research on clitic doubling is presented from a historical perspective focusing on the nature of the Clitic Doubling Parameter and its potential implications for the syntax of cliticization.
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