The Syntax and Prosody of Weak Pronouns in Chamorro  

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Chung, Sandra

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistic Inquiry (ada di JSTOR) vol. 34 no. 4 (2003), page 547-599.
Topik: clitics; second position; phonological phrase; prosodic hier- archy; lexical insertion; modularity
Fulltext: vol 34 no 4 pp 547-599.pdf (4.89MB)

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In the modular linguistic theory assumed by many generative linguists, phonology and syntax are interconnected but fundamentally indepen- dent components of grammar. The effects of syntax on phonology are mediated by prosodic structure, a representation of prosodic constitu- ents calculated from syntactic structure but not isomorphic to it. Within this overall architecture, I investigate the placement of weak pronouns in the Austronesian language Chamorro. Certain Chamorro pronomi- nals can be realized as prosodically deficient weak pronouns that typi- cally occur right after the predicate. I show that these pronouns are second-position clitics whose placement is determined not syntacti- cally, but prosodically: they occur after the leftmost phonological phrase of their intonational phrase. My analysis of these clitics assumes that lexical insertion is late and can affect and be affected by prosodic phrase formation-assumptions consistent with the view that the mu- tual interaction of phonology and syntax is confined to the postsyntac- tic operations that translate syntactic structure into prosodic structure.

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