TY  - CONF
AU  - Milosavljević, Aleksandra
AU  - Milosavljević, Stefan
PY  - 2022
UR  - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/13734
AB  - We explore the intensifying accusative clitic (IAC) ga (‘it’) in Serbian, which has no explicit
antecedent, neither introduced in the previous discourse, nor contextually available for deictic
reference, thus resembling standard ‘dummy’ pronouns. We argue that the IAC ga is referential
— it refers to a specific Topic Situation (TS). Specifically, it is base-generated as a Direct
Object, marking affectedness of the specific TS. The intensification effects of this clitic emerge
pragmatically, due to Levinson’s (2000) M-principle. The paper provides evidence for TSs as
legitimate syntactic objects (Kratzer 2007/2021), supporting the view that there are no ‘dummy’
pronouns (e.g. Langacker 2011).
PB  - Leiden : Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
C3  - Proceedings of ConSOLE XXX
T1  - The intensifying accusative clitic ga ‘it’ in Serbian: From syntax to pragmatics
SP  - 63
EP  - 88
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_13734
ER  - 

@conference{
author = "Milosavljević, Aleksandra and Milosavljević, Stefan",
year = "2022",
abstract = "We explore the intensifying accusative clitic (IAC) ga (‘it’) in Serbian, which has no explicit
antecedent, neither introduced in the previous discourse, nor contextually available for deictic
reference, thus resembling standard ‘dummy’ pronouns. We argue that the IAC ga is referential
— it refers to a specific Topic Situation (TS). Specifically, it is base-generated as a Direct
Object, marking affectedness of the specific TS. The intensification effects of this clitic emerge
pragmatically, due to Levinson’s (2000) M-principle. The paper provides evidence for TSs as
legitimate syntactic objects (Kratzer 2007/2021), supporting the view that there are no ‘dummy’
pronouns (e.g. Langacker 2011).",
publisher = "Leiden : Leiden University Centre for Linguistics",
journal = "Proceedings of ConSOLE XXX",
title = "The intensifying accusative clitic ga ‘it’ in Serbian: From syntax to pragmatics",
pages = "63-88",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_13734"
}

Milosavljević, A.,& Milosavljević, S.. (2022). The intensifying accusative clitic ga ‘it’ in Serbian: From syntax to pragmatics. in Proceedings of ConSOLE XXX
Leiden : Leiden University Centre for Linguistics., 63-88.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_13734

Milosavljević A, Milosavljević S. The intensifying accusative clitic ga ‘it’ in Serbian: From syntax to pragmatics. in Proceedings of ConSOLE XXX. 2022;:63-88.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_13734 .

Milosavljević, Aleksandra, Milosavljević, Stefan, "The intensifying accusative clitic ga ‘it’ in Serbian: From syntax to pragmatics" in Proceedings of ConSOLE XXX (2022):63-88,
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_13734 .