Inaugural talk: El sistema clític català i el conflicte històric entre el datiu i l’acusatiu en les llengües romàniques (The Catalan clitic system and the historical conflict between dative and accusative in Romance languages)
It has been repeatedly stated that the 3rd person pronominal clitic system of standard (normative) Catalan is faithful to that which can be found in the major works of the golden ages of Catalan literature, with the exception of the plural dative and the corresponding combinations that underwent a process of order change: li/els; l’hi, la hi, els hi, les hi; els el, els la, els els, els les (Fabra 1912, among others). This system, however, has never been compatible with the standard Valencian (CV), which is totally innovative with respect to the medieval system, but close enough to the spoken varieties to be adopted with relative ease. The loss of the clitic hi as an exponent of locatives, datives and other verbal regimes is at the origin of the changes that have occurred in this variety: li/els; li’l, li la, li’ls, li les; els el, els la, els els, els les (Casanova 1989, among others).
The standard Catalan system contrasts strongly with the colloquial system of non-Valencian Catalan (non-CV), in which only the combination with the singular dative can be partially reflected in the standard: li/els hi; l’hi, els hi (Bonet 2002, among others). This system, sanctioned as unacceptable by the academy (IEC 1996), is directly linked to medieval Catalan, as shown by data extracted from the CICA (Corpus Informatitzat del Català Antic) in which, contrary to what has been stated, we find cases of the plural dative els hi both alone and in combinations even before the corresponding ones with the singular dative hi. On the other hand, the evolution and variation presented by the Catalan clitic system (CV versus non-CV) calls into question some conclusions about the incompatibility effects and repair strategies that the order change Ac-Dat > Dat-Ac caused within the clitic group in Romance languages (Pescarini 2023).
Teresa Cabré Monné is an Associate Professor at the Departament de Filologia Catalana of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research is embedded to the study of the phonology and the morphology of Catalan and Romance languages, in particular to prosodic structure, adaptation of words and phonology-morphology interface. https://clt.uab.cat/teresa-cabre/
Publicacions recents
Cabré, Teresa (2022): “Syncretism and ordering in the evolution of Catalan pronominal clitic clusters”, Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 11(1), pp. 173–190.
Cabré, Teresa (2021): “Pervivència de la norma fabriana en els clítics pronominals i el criteri de composicionalitat”, De llengua i societat. De la proposta fabriana a la reforma normativa de l’IEC, Miquel Angel Pradilla (ed.), Barcelona, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, pp. 109-118.
Fábregas, Antonio & Teresa Cabré (2021): “Towards a syntactic account of ungrammatical clitic sequences and their repairs”, Formal approaches to Romance morphosyntax, Marc-Olivier Hinzelin, Natasha Pomino & Eva Maria Remberger (ed), Berlín, De Gruyter, pp. 91-116.
Cabré, Teresa, Francesc Torres-Tamarit & Maria del Mar Vanrell (2021): “Hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian”, Linguistics, 59(3), pp. 683-714(32).
Cabré, Teresa & Maria Ohannesian (2020): “Person/Number exponents in imperative-enclitic contexts”, Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16. Selected papers from 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Irene Vogel (Ed.).
Cabré, Teresa & Antonio Fábregas: “Ways of being a dative across Romance varieties”, Dative constructions in Romance and beyond, Language Science Press, pp. 395-411.
Cabré, Teresa & Antonio Fábregas (2019): “3rd person clitic combinations across Catalan varieties: consequences of the nature of the dative clitic”, The Linguistic Review, 36(2), pp. 151-190.
Cabré, Teresa (2017): “Els clítics pronominals de 3a persona: variació dialectal i normativa lingüística”, Estudis de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes LXXI. Homenatge a Kálmán Falub, 1, Barcelona, Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, pp. 209-240.
Cabré, Teresa & Maria Ohannesian (2017): “Secuencias de vocales altas en castellano y catalán”, Relaciones sintácticas. Homenaje a José M. Brucart y M. Luisa Hernanz, Barcelona, Universeitat Autònomade Barcelona, pp. 159-174.