La risalita dei pronomi clitici oggetto diretto e dei pronomi combinati in apprendenti serbofoni di italiano come lingua straniera
Clitic Climbing of Pronouns in the Accusative Case and of Combined Pronouns to the Initial Position in an Italian Student's Sentence Whose Mother Tongue Is Serbian

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the manner in which native Serbian speakers produce clitic climbing (a shift of a clitic pronoun in a sentence), with a view to a third-person clitic pronoun, functioning as an object or to a doubled/combined third-person pronoun. With regard to this, the analysis focuses on the syntactic structures where clitic climbing is mandatory (auxiliary verb + Past Participle and structures/clauses of result), as well as on the structures where clitic climbing is arbitrary (modal verbs + infinitive and verbs of motion + infinitive). The author aims at clarifying the process of clitic climbing and its correct usage in Italian by native Serbian speakers, while pointing to a possible linguistic transfer from Serbian into Italian at the same time.

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