Les Combinacions de clítics pronominals en els dialectes catalans

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to make a morphophonological analysis of the behaviour of binary pronoun combinations in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd persons singular and plural with a view to examining the changes that they may undergo when in proclitic or enclitic position with respect to the verb. The work is based on a corpus obtained principally from Antoni M. Alcovers article Estudis de Sintaxis dialectal catalana, published in 1916 in the Bolletí del diccionari de la llengua catalana (IX, 11-37, 49-63), and additionally from his field notebooks, written up between 1900 and 1922. The corpus contains 3,870 records, of which we used 1,449 for the present study. In this article we contrast the order of pronouns, the use and distribution of full and reinforced proclitic forms (e.g. me v. em), the value of epenthetic vowels and the role of redundancy and elision of morphs.