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Nothing is marked as a clitic in the structure in (47). The prosodic sta- tus of pronouns and auxiliaries must be decided upon later in the course of derivation. I suggest that the “decision” takes place at the stage of Vocabulary Insertion. For example, there are two Vocabulary Items that can be associated with the morpheme aux.3sg: the clitic form je or the strong form jeste. The latter is chosen in a limited number of configura- tions (when the element is focus-marked or contrasted, when conjoined or when it follows a preposition (for pronouns). In all the other cases the clitic form is inserted. Therefore, clitics forms are default, while strong forms only appear in specific environments. (48) demonstrates the Vo- cabulary Items for the strong and clitics forms of the accusative pronoun ga/njega ‘him’. Recall that according to the Subset Principle of Halle (1997), the item that matches the greatest number of features must be chosen, therefore a strong form must appear under focus w
