The taming of the clitics: Zrinka Kolaković, Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, Björn Hansen, Dušica Filipović Đurđević & Nataša Fritz. 2022. Clitics in the wild: Empirical studies on the microvariation of the pronominal, reflexive and verbal clitics in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian (Open Slavic Linguistics 7). Berlin: Language Science Press. 461 p.

Anton Zimmerling

The taming of the clitics

Zrinka Kolaković, Edyta Jurkiewicz-Rohrbacher, Björn Hansen, Dušica Filipović Đurđević & Nataša Fritz. 2022. Clitics in the wild: Empirical studies on the microvariation of the pronominal, reflexive and verbal clitics in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian (Open Slavic Linguistics 7). Berlin: Language Science Press. 461 p.

Authors

Anton Zimmerling Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Science

Abstract

The reviewed book offers an empirically-oriented description of Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian (BCS) clitics, with focus on those features that are subject to parametric microvariation in regional varieties of BCS and across them (p. 5). Descriptive grammars of BCS include a brief mention of BCS proclitics including the conjunctions i, a and the negation ne (Browne & Alt 2004: 15), but the authors of the reviewed book restrict their analysis to BCS clustering enclitics representing two kinds of sentence categories — oblique pronouns and auxiliaries.