Towards a hierarchy of clause types

The article analyzes a morphosyntactic phenomenon attested in many North-Eastern Italian dialects, namely the encliticization of a pronominal subject onto the inflected verb; the author tries to determine, from a comparative perspective, the range of possible interpretations that can be associated with clauses containing the relevant verbal form and shows how the crossdialectal variation can shed light on the functional articulation of the left periphery.