On the Placement and Morphology of Clitics

by Aaron Halpern

Overview

Using data from a variety of languages, this book investigates the place of clitics in the theory of language structure, and their implications for the relationships between syntax, morphology and phonology. It is argued that the least powerful theory of language requires us to recognise at least two classes of clitics, one with the syntax of independent phrases and the other with the syntax of inflectional affixes. It is also argued that prosodic conditions may influence the surface position of clitics beyond what may be accomplished by filtering potential syntactic structures. Finally, the relationship between syntactic, morphological, and phonological constituents within wordlike elements is explored.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575869711
Publisher:	CSLI
Publication date:	01/15/2017
Series:	Dissertations in Linguistics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	250
File size:	4 MB

Table of Contents

Cover Contents Preface 1. Introduction Part I. The distribution of bound words 2. Second Position and Prosodic Inversion 2.1 Second Position 2.2 Outlines of the Analysis 2.2.1 Embedded Clauses 2.3 Controlling the Alternation 2.4 Complementarity of 2D and 2W 2.5 Prosodic Inversion and Verbal Clitics 2.5.1 Bulgarian 2.5.2 Old French 2.6 Other Types of Clitics 2.7 Domains of 2P clitics: Sanskrit and Ancient Greek. 2.8 2P Clitics Are Syntactically Initial in Their Domains 2.9.1.1 The Notion Leftmost Node 2.9.1.2 Discontinuous Constituency 2.9.2 Against Nonsyntactic Analyses 2.10 The Syntax of Clitics 2.11 Comparing the Positioning of Verbs and (2P) Clitics 2.12 Defining Prosodic Inversion 2.13 Is Prosodic Inversion Purely Prosodic? 2.13.1 Skipping and Sentence Internal 2W 2.13.2 Fortresses 3.1 Basics of Wh-Movement 3.1.1 Conjunctive i 3.1.2 Clefting to 3.2 2W Revisited 3.3 The Syntax of Discontinuous Wh-Phrases 3.4 Multiple WH Questions 3.5 Long WH Fronting 3.6 CleftP and the Position of CLitics Part II. Lexical Clitics and Extended Inflection 4. The English Possessive 4.1.1 Head-final NP's 4.1.2 Complex NP's 4.2 Basics of the Extended Inflection Account 4.3.1 Problems with Linear Precedence 4.3.2 Possessive Pronouns 4.3.3 Double Marking: the Case of mine's 4.4 Resolution: Distinguishing POSS and PM 4.5 Ordinals and Fractions: Marking Versus Trigger Features 4.6 Coordination and Trigger Features 4.7 Double-Z dialects 4.8 NP's with Null N's 4.9 NP's with FInal Wh-Traces 4.10 On *John and me's 4.11 Summary and Comparison 5.1.1 At the Edge of a Phrase 5.1.2.1 Ngiyambaa 5.1.2.2 Polish 5.1.3 On the Head of a Phrase 5.2 The Balkan Definite Article and Pseudo-Second Position 5.2.1 Phonology 5.2.2 Second Position 5.2.3.1 Amharic Articles 5.2.3.2 The Zoque Plural 5.2.4 Informal Analysis 5.2.5 Against "Minimal Recording" 5.3.1 Demonstrative and Kinship Terms 5.3.3 Lexical Gaps 5.3.4 Multiple Marking 5.3.5 Clitic Possessive Pronouns 5.3.5.1 Rumanian 5.3.5.2 Bulgarian 5.4 The Marking Feature Principle and the Variety of Lexical Clitics 5.5 Lexical Verbal Clitics 5.5.2 Modern French 5.5.3 Implications 5.6 Inflections and Lexical Clitics 5.7 Conclusion Part III. Cluster Morphology 6. Multiple clitics and Morphological Clusters 6.1.1 Introduction 6.1.2 The Stem-Core Hypothesis and Bracket Erasure 6.1.3 An Alternative: Compounding 6.1.4 Evaluating the Compounding Hypothesis 6.1.4.1 Arguments for a Conjunt Prefix Domain 6.1.4.2 No Inner-Prefix Plus Stem Domain 6.1.4.4 The Status of Classifiers 6.1.5 Morphological Constituency and Phonological Rule Domains 6.1.6 Summary of the Sekani Verb 6.2 Morphology and Syntax in Ordering 6.3.1 Syntactic Subcategorization 6.3.2 Prosodic Subcategorizations 6.3.3 Composition of Prosodic Subcategorizations 6.3.4 Morphological Subcategorization 6.4 Motivating Morphological Subcategorization 6.5 Conclusions 6.A Reference to level 1 brackets in Sekani 6.B The ordering of clitics from different domains Afterword Bibliography Back Cover