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Szczegielniak, Adam

This paper examines verbal clitics in Polish and Slovak

The main goal of this paper is to present an account of certain forms of cliticization in Polish. I will try to show that the fact that certain clitics undergo phonological processes typically assumed to be lexical does not exclude the possibility of them being generated in the syntax, hence this paper is also an attempt to provide a framework of the interaction between different modules of grammar. Clitics are a good ground since their behavior is distinct in different levels of grammar, especially syntax and phonology.

This paper will be an attempt at accounting for ‘that-trace effects’ cross-linguistically. It will be argued that the ECP type of approach, as well as non-ECP analyses, are insufficient to account for a variety of data.The proposed analysis will crucially rely on a phase Spell-Out system adopted in Chomsky (1998) where the computational system CHL Spells-Out material to PF and LF in phases.