Clitics between Syntax and Lexicon

Gerlach, Birgit

doi:10.1075/la.51

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“…Clitics are morphs on the borderline between free and bound morphs (Zwicky 1977, 1985b, Klavans 1985, Kaisse 1985, Borer 1986, Nevis 1986, Anderson 1992, 2005, Halpern 1995, 1998, Halpern and Zwicky 1996, Gerlach 2002, Hudson 2007. Clitics express meanings usually reserved for free morphs, but fail -for whatever reasons -to appear as individual prosodic words.…”

Section: Cliticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clitics in dependency morphology

Groß

2014

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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Clitics are challenging for many theories of grammar because they straddle syntax and morphology. In most theories, cliticization is considered a phrasal phenomenon: clitics are affix-like expressions that attach to whole phrases. Constituency-based grammars in particular struggle with the exact constituent structure of such expressions. This paper proposes a solution based on catena-based dependency morphology. This theory is an extension of catena-based dependency syntax. Following Authors et.al. (in press), a word or a combination of words in syntax that are continuous with respect to dominance form a catena. Likewise, a morph or a combination of morphs that is continuous with respect to dominance form a morph catena. Employing the concept of morph catena together with a hyphenation convention leads to a parsimonious and insightful understanding of cliticization.

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Section: Cliticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clitics in dependency morphology

Groß

2014

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

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“…McCarthy and Prince 1993, Legendre 1996, Grimshaw 2001a, 2001b, Choi 1996, 1999, Samek-Lodovici 1996, 2001, Costa 1998, Sells 2000, 2001, Gerlach 2002, we propose that movement in the above structures follows from the four constraints below which favour alignment of NP, AP, NumP, and DemP with the left edge of Cinque's base-generated structure, i.e. the left edge of AgrWP (possibly coinciding with the left edge of the extended projection of the noun; on extended projections see Grimshaw 1991Grimshaw , 2000.…”

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On the Ungrammaticality of Remnant Movement in the Derivation of Greenberg's Universal 20

Steddy

Samek-Lodovici

2011

Linguistic Inquiry

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We propose an analysis that derives Cinque's (2005) typology of linear orders involving a demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun through four Optimality Theory constraints requiring leftward alignment of these items. We show that remnant movement is ungrammatical whenever it produces universally suboptimal alignments, compared with remnant-movement-free structures. Any movement is permitted, but only the best alignment configurations surface as grammatical. We also show that Cinque's original analysis must encode the structural derivations of all attested orders as parametric values of the associated languages. Our analysis need not make similar structural stipulations, as the different attested structures emerge from constraint reranking.

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“…It is always attached to a host. Gerlach (2002) defines a clitic as a word that cannot stand on its own in a given structure, but rather tends to cling to a host word.…”

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Phonologically- Driven Acquisition of Clitics in Yemeni Arabic

Al-Bothigi¹

2019

IJL

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This paper investigates the acquisition of clitics by Yemeni Arabic children. It looks at the acquisition of proclitics (affixes attached at the beginning of the word) and enclitics (affixes attached at the end of the word). The study examines the language of four children aged 1;8, 2;3, 2;8 and 2;11. It concludes that children seem to start acquiring enclitics prior to proclitics. The paper also considers the different repair strategies – certain phonological processes – that children resort to in order to compensate for the (adult's) input-output mismatches.

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Clitics between Syntax and Lexicon

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Clitics in dependency morphology

Clitics in dependency morphology

On the Ungrammaticality of Remnant Movement in the Derivation of Greenberg's Universal 20

Phonologically- Driven Acquisition of Clitics in Yemeni Arabic

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