Pronominal clitics in Jowshaqani, procliticisation and endocliticisation of the clitics

Spoken in central Iranan, Jowshaqani is a variety of the Central Iranian languages that shows specific features of pronominal clitics. The present paper has dealt with the function and placement of pronominal clitics, the rise of procliticisation and endoclitisation of the clitics, doubling and clitic cluster in Jowshaqani. Jowshaqani shows very good evidence for proclitisation; having lost their syntactic host, enclitics can change their attachment orientation and become incorporated into the verb which follows them in the form of proclitics. It also provides a rich source for the study of endoclitics, where a clitic can appear as endoclitic between the prefixes and the stem. Jowshaqani also shows two other syntactic aspects of clitic: clitic cluster which appears typically when the obligatory non-canonical subject clitic follows the possessor-indexing clitic; and clitic doubling which means a proclitic pronoun occurs together with the non-clitic pronoun in the same syntactic function.