Abstract
Subject clitics in French and the Null-Subject Parameter In this article 1 present an overview of the syntactic differences between subject clitics in Standard French and subjects clitics in the Northern Italian dialects. While in Standard French the preverbal subject clitics behave in a uniform fashion, recent research on the Northern Italian dialects has shown that the syntax of subject clitics may differ within a single language depending on their person/number specification. The more fine-grained typology of subject clitics based on the comparative work on the Northern Italian dialects is then applied to the singular subject clitics of Colloquial French (francais parle), revealing a split between 1/2 person clitics on the one hand and 3rd person on the other with respect to different types of VP-coordination.
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