Towards a syntactic understanding of prosodically reduced pronouns

Prosodically reduced pronouns come in two forms, "weak" and "clitic," both differing from non-reduced "strong" pronouns. Both of these also occur in W est Germanic dialects and exhibit different properties which cannot always be unambiguously disentangled. The theoretical framework presented here all ows us a straightforward disambiguation: reduced pronominal elements in the left periphery must be clitics, while those below cannot. The functional h ead F-0, encoding "point-of-view," serves as the licensing position for cli tics which are here taken to be heads; weak pronouns, maximal phrases in th e overt syntax, cliticize at LF. Movement to F-0 is driven by the need to c ompensate for underspecified (sic)-feature information.