In the Romance language Catalan, some verbs and some argument-structure
configurations normally require the reflexive clitic; however, in certain
constructions, the expected reflexive clitic is optionally missing; and, yet in
other constructions, the reflexive clitic is obligatorily left out. The main
theoretical claim is that so-called clitics in Romance, a special kind of affix,
are licensed by syntax-morphology (SM) mapping principles so that a clitic is
used if and only if it is required ...
In the Romance language Catalan, some verbs and some argument-structure
configurations normally require the reflexive clitic; however, in certain
constructions, the expected reflexive clitic is optionally missing; and, yet in
other constructions, the reflexive clitic is obligatorily left out. The main
theoretical claim is that so-called clitics in Romance, a special kind of affix,
are licensed by syntax-morphology (SM) mapping principles so that a clitic is
used if and only if it is required by an SM mapping principle. This approach
has important implications for the syntax-morphology interface: words are not
inserted in their inflected form in the syntax, contrary to standard LFG
assumptions, but are inserted as lexemes and their inflected forms are licensed
on the basis of the f-structure information
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