Clitic Placement, Syntactic Discontinuity, and Information Structure

The phenomenon of so-called second position clitics has received considerable attention in the linguistic literature, and some proposed analyses of the phenomenon have suggested major architectural changes to linguistic theories. In this paper, we look at second position clitics in New-Shtokavian, their syntactic and prosodic properties and propose a purely syntactic clitic placement analysis. We show that the complex data can be accounted for by an analysis of split constituents and their resulting information structure differences with a simple prosody-syntax interface.