CLIC

The aim of this project is to investigate the impact of language contact on the structure of clitics in three South Slavic contact varieties: Molise Croatian (MC), Burgenland Croatian (BC), and Torlak (TK). The chosen varieties constitute a minimal triple, since 1) MC has had a very extended contact with Italian and Italo-Romance varieties, having a fairly rich clitic system, 2) BC has been in contact with Austrian German, displaying very scarce cliticization phenomena and 3) TK has been in contact with Serbian Standard, Macedonian and Bulgarian, all with very rich clitic systems.