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JSL VOL. 12, No.1 pp. 1- (Winter-Spring 2004)   From the Editor (1- ARTICLES Željko Bošković, Clitic Placement in South Slavic (-) Andrew Caink, Semi-Lexical Heads and Clitic Climbing (-) Denisa Lenertová, Czech Pronominal Clitics (-) Sandra Stjepanović, Clitic Climbing and Restructuring with "Finite Clause" and Infinate Complements (-) Olga Mišeska Tomić, The South Slavic Pronominal Clitics ( - ) REVIEWS Loren Billings, XXXX (347-59) ABSTRACTS Clitic Placement in South Slavic Željko Bošković The paper examines clitic placement and the nature of clitic clustering in Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian. It is argued that Serbo-Croatian clitics do not cluster syntactically; they are located in different projections in the syntax. The order of clitics within the clitic cluster is argued to follow from the hierarchical arrangement of projections in which they are located. The paper also provides a principled account of the idiosyncratic behavior of the auxiliary clitic je, which in contrast to other auxiliary clitics follows pronominal clitics. In contrast to Serbo-Croatian clitics, Bulgarian and Macedonian clitics are argued to cluster in the same head position in the final syntactic representation. The cluster is formed through successive cyclic leftward adjunctions of clitics to the verb, in accordance with the LCA. Following Chomsky’s (1994) suggestion that clitics are ambiguous head/phrasal elements, it is argued that clitics do not branch, hence cannot take complements. This claim leads to a new proposal concerning the structural representation of several clitic forms. Semi-Lexical Heads and Clitic Climbing Andrew Caink A unified analysis of "clitic climbing” from subordinate clauses in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian and from DP in Czech is presented. Such clitic placement is demonstrated to co-occur with a semi-lexical head, and several apparently lexical Czech nouns are shown to have semi-lexical status. The definition of an "extended projection” is made contingent upon a theory of variable lexicalization, enabling a semi-lexical head to optionally occur within the extended projection of a lower lexical head. This option allows the pronominal clitic in both constructions to appear higher in the tree, while not violating the single structural relation between any pronominal clitic and its associated theta-assigned position. Czech Pronominal Clitics Denisa Lenertová This article explores the empirical properties of Czech pronominal clitics, which differ from their counterparts in other second position (2P) clitic languages (such as Serbian-Croatian) in a number of respects. After looking at clitic-first and clitic-third phenomena and their semantic/pragmatic impact, it is argued that Czech clitic placement must be basically driven by syntax, and that the 2P is a heterogeneous structure in which pronominal clitics occupy a TP-external position below clitic auxiliaries, but higher than the copula. The linear ordering of pronominal clitics within their cluster has a certain limited flexibility due to phonological requirements, which affect both monoclausal clitic placement and clitic climbing. Finally, the empirical details of clitic climbing in Czech are discussed, showing that it cannot be reduced to movement for case checking or to the phenomenon of restructuring known from Romance languages. Clitic Climbing and Restructuring with "Finite Clause" and Infinite Compliments Sandra Stjepanović [No abstract given.] The South Slavic Pronominal Clitics Olga Mišeska Tomić [No abstract given.]