Embracing edges: syntactic and phono-syntactic edge sensitivity in Nupe

Kandybowicz, Jason

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“…2 1 See, among many others, Zec and Inkelas 1990, Halpern 1995, Adger 1997, 2007a,b, Zubizarreta 1998, Chung 2003, Culicover and Jackendoff 2005, Gutiérrez-Bravo 2005, Vicente 2005, Göbbel 2007, Anttila 2008, Kandybowicz 2009, López 2009, Agbayani, Golston, and Henderer 2010, Anttila, Adams, and Speriosu 2010, Richards 2010, Manetta 2012, Sabbagh 2013 Here and below, we occasionally highlight the position of a postposed pronoun by placing it in a box; we also indicate the syntactically expected position of the pronoun by way of the symbol .…”

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Lightest to the Right: An Apparently Anomalous Displacement in Irish

2016

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This article analyzes mismatches between syntactic and prosodic constituency in Irish and attempts to understand those mismatches in terms of recent proposals about the nature of the syntax-prosody interface. It argues in particular that such mismatches are best understood in terms of Selkirk's (2011) Match Theory, working in concert with constraints concerned with rhythm and phonological balance. An apparently anomalous rightward movement that seems to target certain pronouns and shift them rightward is shown to be fundamentally a phonological process: a prosodic response to a prosodic dilemma. The article thereby adds to a growing body of evidence for the role of phonological factors in shaping constituent order.

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Lightest to the Right: An Apparently Anomalous Displacement in Irish

2016

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“…In fact, in this more dynamic conception, the relevant domains for various prosodic computations may follow directly from the dynamics of the multiple spell‐out system. In this approach, second‐position clisis may fall within phenomena known under the general rubric of “edge sensitivity.” Thus, for instance, “second position” may be a PF solution to a ban on the emptiness of the edge of a spell‐out domain (see An's Intonational Phrase Edge Generalization; see also Kandybowicz ).…”

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“…With the introduction of the notion of phases and multiple spell‐out, the debate has taken a new perspective. The phase‐based conception of linguistic computation has opened a new window through which we can view other phenomena in (morpho)syntax and its interface with phonology (see, e.g., Cheng & Downing ; Ishihara ; Jackson ; Kahnemuyipour , ; Kandybowicz ; Kratzer & Selkirk ; Pak ; Samuels ; Selkirk ; Wagner ; Werle , among others). Our proposal with respect to the distribution of the Eastern Armenian auxiliary can be viewed as another example of a linguistic phenomenon, in this case second‐position clisis, which is taken to refer to the notion of phases.…”

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On the Positional Distribution of an Armenian Auxiliary: Second‐Position Clisis, Focus, and Phases

Kahnemuyipour

Megerdoomian

2017

Syntax

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This paper investigates the positional distribution of an auxiliary clitic in Eastern Armenian in informationally marked sentences. The paper builds on previous work on the distribution of the auxiliary in focus-neutral contexts (Kahnemuyipour & Megerdoomian 2011), where its placement was analyzed as second position within the lower phase domain (or vP), thereby extending the inventory of known second-position phenomena from the clause to the smaller verbal domain. To account for the distribution of the auxiliary in sentences with focused constituents, it is proposed here that the relevant phase in this context is the Focus Phrase, with the auxiliary appearing in the expected second position. This falls into place under a dynamic view of phasehood that defines the phase as the highest projection of a lexical category and takes low focus to be part of the verbal domain and its corresponding phase (Bo skovi c 2014). These proposals rely highly on the parallelism between clausal and verbal domains both in terms of their status as phases as well as their structural makeup. To the extent that these proposals succeed in accounting for the facts we discuss, they provide further evidence for the dynamic conception of phases as well as the CP-vP parallelism.We would like to thank the participants of the following conferences: LSA 2008, Meeting Clitics 2008, and WCCFL 2010, as well as audiences at the University of Toronto, Michigan State University, and MIT for valuable comments on earlier versions of this paper. We are also grateful to three anonymous reviewers and the editors of Syntax for their constructive feedback.1 Armenian is an Indo-European language; the Eastern dialect is spoken in Armenia and Iran and in the diasporan communities originating from these two countries. Examples here represent the colloquial Iranian-Armenian dialect.2 In this paper, we use clefts to mark focus in the English translations for convenience. 3 The nominative marker in Armenian has two allomorph variants, the schwa and -n after vowels. According to Vaux (1998:170), this alternation results from the addition of -n, which triggers schwa epenthesis and then deletes when not followed by a vowel. 4 The following special abbreviations are used in the examples: LOC = locative, INST = instrumental, SP = specific object, NSP = nonspecific object, PRS = present tense, PST = past tense, AOR = aorist, PROG = progressive aspect, PFV = perfective aspect, CAUS = causative, REDUP = reduplication, PASS = passive, CL = classifier, and DO = Direct Object.

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“…An alternative current approach to the phonology–syntax interface (An 2007; Cheng & Downing 2007; 2009; Kandybowicz 2009) extends Edge‐based prosodic theory (Selkirk 1986; 1995; Truckenbrodt 1995; 1999; 2007) to include reference to syntactic phases. The basic parsing algorithm in the Edge‐based theory (Selkirk 1986; 1995; 2000; Truckenbrodt 1995; 1999; 2005; 2007) requires only one edge of a major syntactic constituent – a lexical XP or a functional XP, like a phase – to coincide with an edge of a prosodic constituent, Phonological Phrase or Intonation Phrase, respectively.…”

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“…In this approach, then, we expect to find a close match between spell‐out domains and prosodic domains, as they are coextensive in the default case. Other work, like An (2007), Cheng & Downing (2007; 2009) and Kandybowicz (2009), incorporates the phase into asymmetrical Edge‐based alignment theory (Selkirk 1986; 1995; Truckenbrodt 1995; 1999; 2007), an indirect reference theory of the interface. Phases simply provide a new type of constituent edge for prosodic domains to align with.…”

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An edge-based approach to the alignment of syntactic phases and prosodic phrases1

Downing

2010

Transactions of the Philological Society

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In phase‐based syntax, syntactic structure is sent in chunks – spell‐out domain by spell‐out domain – for phonological interpretation. The spell‐out domain of an embedded clause would, then, form a separate phonological domain from its matrix. In this paper, I test this theory on the prosodic phrasing of relative clauses in some Bantu languages, and show that the phrasing contradicts the proposal that embedded spell‐out domains necessarily form distinct prosodic domains. Instead, the phrasing is most consistent with a non‐cyclic Edge‐based analysis, in which only one edge of a syntactic phase constituent is aligned with the edge of a prosodic phrase.

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Embracing edges: syntactic and phono-syntactic edge sensitivity in Nupe

Cited by 28 publications

References 24 publications

Lightest to the Right: An Apparently Anomalous Displacement in Irish

Lightest to the Right: An Apparently Anomalous Displacement in Irish

On the Positional Distribution of an Armenian Auxiliary: Second‐Position Clisis, Focus, and Phases

An edge-based approach to the alignment of syntactic phases and prosodic phrases1

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