Slovenian Clitic Pronouns and What is so Special about Them

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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Slovene Linguistic Studies
Published
2025-02-12
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3986/sls.6.1.11
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2
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Linguistics and language evolution
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Slovenian Clitic Pronouns and What is so Special about Them

Boštjan Dvořák
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Slovene Linguistic Studies
Linguistics and language evolution
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Slovenian Clitic Pronouns and What is so Special about Them

Boštjan Dvořák
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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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