Cliticization vs. Inflection: English N'T

Zwicky, Arnold M.; Pullum, Geoffrey K.

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“…The spatial morpheme can appear across different categories, such as index signs, spatially modified signs, as well as verb inflection. According to Zwicky & Pullum (1983), this is a strong argument for a morpheme to be considered a clitic.…”

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The meaning of space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Reference, specificity and structure in signed discourse

Barberà

2013

SL&L

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ii iii Als meu pares, al Cesc i a les comunitats sordes d"arreu. Cloc els ulls i sé que no hi ha res més bonic, quan aquest gest és sincer,que dar, cada ú, un xic. EULÀLIA RIBERA I LLONCH v AcknowledgmentsThe point of departure of this journey may be found at different moments: when my neighbour told me about an association for deaf people in Sabadell where she was learning sign language and recommended me the book Le cri de la Mouette by Emmanuelle Laborit; when I started studying for my doctorate and enrolled in a course called L'estructura de les llengües naturals de signes taught by Josep Quer at the Universitat de Barcelona; or also when I started teaching sign language linguistics and working at the Catalan Federation for the Deaf. These three starting points led me to meet many people who, in some way or other, have influenced the path I have taken and shaped this adventure. I would like to take the opportunity to acknowledge them now. Josep Quer, my supervisor, is a wonderful linguist, as well as one of the nicest people I have ever met. He introduced me to sign language linguistics and has been on this path since the very beginning. He made me realise that when doing sign language linguistics, formal analyses can be much more interesting (and fun!) than doing WYSIWYG. I want to thank him for leaving me all the space I needed, for letting me wander with the data and for never pushing me in any specific direction, but for constantly reminding me that all the ideas must be well connected, while always thinking about new paths of research in such a positive way. As I said after my MA defence, I hope that this is only the beginning. Always ready to support me on all levels, Berit Gehrke and Alexandra Spalek were the perfect comrades from the very beginning of this journey and they deserve special credit. Berit was always ready to explain linguistic problems with which I was stuck with, help organise parts of this dissertation, listen to my existential doubts and organise barbecues and 80"s movies night when I thought my social skills had started waning. Being very close to Alexandra and after our endless discussions, I managed to understand what formal linguistics and doing a PhD were about. If it hadn"t been for them, I would never have reached my current level of understanding. And, most importantly, we wouldn"t have our amazing blog! Danke schön, my friends!! Most of the last four years were shared with the LSC linguists at the UPF and at the UB, with whom we always travelled on the same thematic journey. Celia Alba, Delfina Aliaga, Santi Frigola, Guillem Massó, Marta Mosella, Josep Quer, Joana Rosselló, and Raquel Santiago, many thanks for every single discussion about LSC and sign language in general. You have also been the perfect fellow travellers around Marrakesh, Vitoria, Lille, London and Venice! Lali Ribera"s dedication and enthusiasm for life is a model to me. Many thanks for letting me start this dissertation with one of your beautiful verses.And as if my work in Barcelona was not already intere...

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Section: The Spatial Morphemementioning

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The meaning of space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Reference, specificity and structure in signed discourse

Barberà

2013

SL&L

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“…There are various tests proposed in the literature to distinguish between these two options. Zwicky (1977) and Zwicky and Pullum (1983) provide several tests. De Haan (1997) gives specific tests to distinguish between clitics and inflectional endings in Frisian.…”

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Complementizer Agreement

Koppen

2017

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition

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Complementizers agree in phi‐features with the embedded subject in dialects of German and Dutch, in Tense with the embedded clause in Irish and in phi‐features with the matrix subject in certain African languages. These complementizer agreement phenomena will be the main empirical focus of this chapter. In particular it discusses the empirical generalizations and analyses of complementizer agreement itself as well as the relevance of this phenomenon for the theoretical debate on the interaction between the syntactic and the PF module of the grammar, the analysis of agreement, the relation between T 0 and C 0 , and the layout of the left periphery.

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“…(the current 3SG being a reformation). Such specialization of individual forms is characteristically found with affixal formations, according to Zwicky & Pullum 1983, and not with those involving clitics, which are syntactically and semantically transparent. Thus, from this evidence, Tsakonian, and by extension, Greek in general, has affixal indicative negation.…”

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“…Although many linguists have proposed criteria for distinguishing among words, clitics, and affixes (see, for example, Carstairs 1981or Muysken 1981, those put forth recently by Zwicky, in Zwicky 1985, Zwicky 1987, and Zwicky & Pullum 1983, are adopted here. These "Zwicky criteria" present the strongest basis for deciding categorial status, for they are both internally consistent and derivative from the architecture of overall theory of grammar he assumes.…”

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The benefits of morphological classification: on some apparently problematic clitics in Modern Greek

Joseph¹

1990

Contemporary Morphology

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Cliticization vs. Inflection: English N'T

Cited by 638 publications

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The meaning of space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Reference, specificity and structure in signed discourse

The meaning of space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Reference, specificity and structure in signed discourse

Complementizer Agreement

The benefits of morphological classification: on some apparently problematic clitics in Modern Greek

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