Conflicting prosodic and syntactic constraints on special clitics

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  • Loren A. Billings

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https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.6.1996.756

Abstract

In this paper I elucidate the properties of clausal-scope, special ciitics (as defined in Zwicky (1977)) upon which syntax and prosody impose conflicting requirements. The syntax requires these clitics to be clause-initial, while the prosody requires them to be suffixes,
hence a conflict. A third, ALIGNment constraint restricts against extra-clausal suffixation. I begin with a classic Wackernagel's Law, or second-position, clitic. I then show that other clitics which appear to behave drastically differently can be accounted for using the
same constraints ranked in a different order. The data come primarily from Russian, Tagalog and Warlpiri.

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1996-10-01

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Billings, Loren A. 1996. „Conflicting Prosodic and Syntactic Constraints on Special Clitics“. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 6 (Oktober):43-50. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.6.1996.756.

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