El clític en: un o dos clítics?

Moreno Navarro, Helena

El clític en: un o dos clítics?

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Moreno Navarro, H. El clític en: un o dos clítics?. 2025. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71007

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Abstract

Clitics are a subject of study that arouses much interest due to the phonetic, morphological and syntactic traits that identify them. This paper is focused on the Catalan clitic en and the aim is to describe and analyse the behaviour of this particle. Although Catalan grammars explain en’s syntactic features and suggest two main functions —the partitive and the genitive—, there are no previous studies that consider the hypothesis that en may be the coinciding form of two different clitics. In order to test this hypothesis, a production survey that takes into account the particularities of both partitive and genitive en has been distributed among speakers with varying language usage degree. Thanks to the results obtained, it was observed that the clitic under study is used more frequently when it accomplishes the partitive function than the genitive one, which supports the hypothesis of this study. Moreover, it was concluded that the genitive en with partitive meaning behaves more similarly to the partitive clitic that to the genitive. For all these reasons, this work provides a new approach about the clitic en and opens a possible new line of research in the field of Catalan linguistics and syntax.