French clitic climbing as periphrasis

Aguila-Multner, Gabriel

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“…(39) #Robin swung and Leslie tamed an unusual bat (Levine & Hukari 2006) [11] Bonami & Webelhuth (2013) reconcile this syntactic analysis with morphological periphrasis, using Paradigm Function Morphology: even though the auxiliary and the participle are different words, which are syntactically combined, their combination belongs to the inflectional paradigm of the verbal lexeme. Aguila-Multner & Crysmann (2021) propose an alternate syntactic analysis with a VP complement and no argument composition. Nothing in the present paper depends on the syntactic analysis of the auxiliaries.…”

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Voice mismatch and contrast in French Right-Node Raising

Abeillé¹,

Shiraïshi²

2023

J. Ling.

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Right-Node Raising is generally considered to impose stricter identity conditions than other kinds of ellipsis, such as VP ellipsis, according to Hankamer & Sag 1976 and Hardt 1993. In this paper, we investigate voice mismatch in French Right-Node Raising (RNR) through a corpus study and two experiments. We show that RNR with voice mismatch can be found in a written corpus (frTenTen 2012) and that many examples involve coordination of a reflexive active and a short passive form. We suggest this is because semantic contrast (here, between self and external agent) plays a role according to Hartmann (2000) and Abeillé and Mouret (2010). We ran two acceptability judgement experiments to test voice mismatch and semantic contrast. We did not find any penalty for voice mismatch with VP ellipsis but an interaction with semantic contrast. We also found an effect of semantic contrast when coordinating an active and a passive VP without participle ellipsis. We conclude that voice mismatch is acceptable with RNR and propose a Head-driven Phrase-Structure Grammar (HPSG) analysis, following Chaves (2014) and Shiraïshi et al. (2019).

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Voice mismatch and contrast in French Right-Node Raising

Abeillé¹,

Shiraïshi²

2023

J. Ling.

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“…We shall argue on the basis of clitic trapping (Miller & Sag, 1997), as well as marking of the downstairs subject (Koenig, 1998) that the downstairs verb assumes a more active role than what is suggested by an argument composition approach and, conversely, we shall show that argument composition leads to problems with coordination and with en-cliticisation. The analysis we are going to propose combines an inversion analysis of the downstairs subject as a downstairs complement, accounting for scrambling and case marking, with an analysis of clitic climbing in terms of inflectional periphrasis (Aguila-Multner & Crysmann, 2020).…”

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“…generalised raising of the downstairs verb's arguments by the auxiliary. In a more recent proposal (Aguila-Multner & Crysmann, 2020), we suggested an alternative approach to clitic climbing, building on the model of inflectional periphrasis in HPSG by Bonami & Webelhuth (2013); Bonami (2015). However, this analysis so far only accounts for temporal, passive and predicative constructions.…”

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An inside-out approach to French causatives

Aguila-Multner

2020

hpsg

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In this paper, we provide a novel account of French causatives that crucially derives the core properties of the construction inside-out from the downstairs lexical verb to the causative verb, rather than outside-in, as is commonly assumed by argument composition (Miller & Sag, 1997; Abeillé & Godard, 1997; Abeillé et al., 1998). We shall argue on the basis of clitic trapping (Miller & Sag, 1997), as well as marking of the downstairs subject (Koenig, 1998) that the downstairs verb assumes a more active role than what is suggested by an argument composition approach and, conversely, we shall show that argument composition leads to problems with coordination and with en-cliticisation. The analysis we are going to propose combines an inversion analysis of the downstairs subject as a downstairs complement, accounting for scrambling and case marking, with an analysis of clitic climbing in terms of inflectional periphrasis (Aguila-Multner & Crysmann 2020).

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Endoclisis and Mesoclisis

Crysmann,

Luís

2023

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology

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Most clitics tend to be placed at the edge of a host, either as proclitics, to the left, or as enclitics, to the right. More rarely, however, clitics may also appear within the host word and these cases are referred to in the literature, rather interchangeably, as either mesoclitics (from Lat. meso ‘middle’) or endoclitics (from Greek endo ‘inside’). The idea that clitics may interrupt existing words has attracted much suspicion over the years and is almost uncontroversially regarded as a threat to lexical integrity. However, as is the case for clitics in general, endoclitics/mesoclitics also do not represent a uniform category. It is therefore essential not to draw conclusions before understanding what the properties of each case are, how they impact on the host word and whether they attach syntactically or morphologically. In this entry we try to shed light on the phenomenon of endoclisis/mesoclisis by examining two sets of word‐internal clitics, namely mesoclitics in European Portuguese and endoclitics in Udi. These two case studies provide us with extremely challenging and at times conflicting evidence as to the syntactic versus morphological nature of the phenomenon. But we hope to show that a careful evaluation of available diagnostic criteria is of utmost importance when drawing conclusions about the nature of the morphology‐syntax interface. Section 1 offers a general discussion of clitics. Section 2 deals with mesoclitics in European Portuguese and Section 3 with endoclitics in Udi. For each case study, we start with a description of the grammatical properties by applying well‐established criteria developed for the clitic‐affix distinction; having established the mixed nature of both the European Portuguese and Udi clitic systems, we then offer a brief discussion of existing analyses. The conclusion in Section 4 presents a summary of our findings.

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French clitic climbing as periphrasis

Cited by 5 publications

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Voice mismatch and contrast in French Right-Node Raising

Voice mismatch and contrast in French Right-Node Raising

An inside-out approach to French causatives

Endoclisis and Mesoclisis

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