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Clitic Climbing and Stacked Infinitives in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian – A Corpus-Driven Study
Abstract Although clitics (CLs) have been very often analysed for Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian (BCS), only few studies approach clitic climbing (CC) in BCS. According to Čamdžić & Hudson (2002) and Aljović (2004), CC out of infinitive complements is obligatory. In the present paper, we focus on constructions with stacked infinitives and address the following research question: “Can pronominal CC appear in the context of stacked infinitives?” Based on material extracted from three web corpora {bs, hr, sr}WaC, we conclude that pronominal CC does not always occur in the case of stacked infinitives in all three languages examined. We identify the following constraints: 1. CLs in the same case but depending on two different verbs block CC. 2. Reflexivity of the infinitive embedding further infinitives seems to be involved in the blocking of CC.
Keywords Clitic climbing, stacked infinitives, web corpora, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbia
