The status of the Clitic Group

Vogel, Irene

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“…Monachesi (1996) posits different prosodic structures for single clitics vs. clitic clusters: one clitic adjoins to the host to form a single PW, while two clitics form a unit (PW) separate from the host resulting in a compound structure. Nespor and Vogel (1986) posit the Clitic Group, refined in Vogel (2009) as the Composite Group, an independent layer in the prosodic hierarchy between the PP and the PW level, where clitics are adjoined; within this domain unique rules and constraints apply.…”

Section: A) Pp-incorporation (B) Pw-incorporation (C) Pw-adjunctionmentioning

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Bitonal pitch accent and phonological alignment in Sardinian

Kim¹,

Repetti²

2013

Probus

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This study presents new data on pitch accent alignment in Sardinian, a Romance language spoken in Italy. We propose that what has been described as "stress shift" in encliticization processes is not a change in the word level stress, but variation in the association of the pitch accent. Our claim is that word level stress remains in situ, and the falling tune which our data exhibit can be interpreted as a bitonal pitch accent (HL*) associated with the entire verb + enclitic unit: the starred tone is associated with the rightmost metrically prominent syllable, and the leading tone is associated with the word-level stressed syllable. The research questions we address are twofold: (i) how are the landing sites of the two tonal targets phonetically identified; (ii) how are the phonetic facts reconciled with prosodic structure.

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Section: A) Pp-incorporation (B) Pw-incorporation (C) Pw-adjunctionmentioning

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Bitonal pitch accent and phonological alignment in Sardinian

Kim¹,

Repetti²

2013

Probus

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“…28 28 Vogel (2009) assumes a Composite Group to replace the Clitic Group, but in essence it has the same properties except that the former can also account for compounds. …”

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Phonological phrasing in Germanic: the judgement of history, confirmed through experiment

Lahiri

Plank

2010

Transactions of the Philological Society

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There are contrary views on how phonological phrasing in Germanic is determined: either by surface syntax or by rhythmic principles (forming trochaic ⁄ dactylic or iambic ⁄ anapaestic groupings) or alternately by both depending on speech style (spontaneous ⁄ planned, casual ⁄ careful). It is shown in this paper that a host of historical developments in Germanic -having to do with cliticisation and the creation of new inflectional affixes from clitics, and with attendant changes of the forms involved -point to a default phonological phrasing of grammatical ⁄ function words which associates them leftwards regardless of morphosyntactic constituency and which does not respect morphological word integrity either. Thus, encliticisation predominates almost exclusively, and productive inflectional affixes innovated via cliticisation are all suffixes. Experimental evidence from contemporary Germanic (in this case Dutch) confirms that phonological words are crucial units in speech planning, with such units equally formed as trochees irrespective of the phrasal syntax of grammatical and lexical words. CONTRARY VIEWS ON HOW PHONOLOGICAL PHRASING IS DETERMINED Constructions and their parts: morphosyntax in relation to semanticsIf you want to think and express a thought, you will be guided not only by the laws and vagaries of thinking, but also by the lexicon and grammar of your language. Although our concern subsequently will chiefly be with the latter, it is an interesting question how a thought as such takes shape in real time in the mind of the thinker, especially if it is a complex thought -say, the thought (often thought and expressed, among many others, by Alexander Pope 1 ) that the sound must seem an echo to the sense. It is probably not unreasonable to assume that the parts which come first in the real-time construction of this thought, especially if embedded in a general train of thought about the relationship between form and meaning, are the concepts of sound and of sense and the concept of an asymmetric correspondence relation between them -for which the English lexicon provides the noun-or-verb words sound, sense and echo, respectively. The concepts of seeming (as opposed to being) and of deontic necessity, expressible in English through a verb seem and a modal auxiliary must, would seem secondary, in the sense of not normally being the primary topics when such a thought is being thought and expressed -unless they have gained importance and planning priority as a focus of contrast. The temporal embedding of the thought (something of a timeless directive) and the contextual embedding of its parts (sound and sense as contextually given) are an everpresent mould for thinking -at least when the thinking is being done by speakers of English. 1In his Essay on Criticism (1711) -which is in fact a poem. Its metre is supposed to be the iambic pentameter; but arguably a trochaic reading of this line, and many others, is preferable -as per (4b) below.

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“…Match Theory preserves the long‐standing tradition that prosodic constituents are hierarchically organized (Selkirk , , Nespor & Vogel , Inkelas & Zec , among others). However, because there is a many‐to‐one correspondence between syntactic and prosodic constituents—for example, VP → φ ‐phrase, vP → φ ‐phrase, AspP → φ ‐phrase—and because syntactic structure is recursive, Match Theory necessarily breaks with the traditional analysis of prosodic structure as nonrecursive (Selkirk , , Nespor & Vogel , Pierrehumbert & Beckman , Inkelas & Zec , Vogel , among others). This departure represents a positive development for prosodic theory: recent evidence strongly indicates the existence of recursive prosodic structure (e.g., Wagner , , Krivokapić , Itô & Mester , , , Ladd , Féry & Schubö , Selkirk ).…”

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Prosodic Noun Incorporation: The Relationship between Prosody and Argument Structure in Niuean

Clemens

2019

Syntax

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This paper argues for a uniform X 0 -raising analysis of VSO and VOS word order in Niuean. Accounting for VSO via X 0 raising has a strong foundation in the V1 literature; the claim that X 0 raising can also underlie VOS word order-as in Niuean's pseudo-noun-incorporation construction-is more controversial. This paper explains the VOS order of Niuean pseudo noun incorporation by appealing to a condition on prosodic well-formedness, ARGUMENT-φ, that requires a head and its internal argument(s) to form a unique phonological phrase. In order to satisfy this requirement, the incorporated argument undergoes prosodic restructuring into a position adjacent to the verb at PF. Since the verb arrives at its clause-initial position via X 0 raising, the syntactic input to the prosodic grammar is VSO, while the prosodic output is VOS.

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The status of the Clitic Group

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Bitonal pitch accent and phonological alignment in Sardinian

Bitonal pitch accent and phonological alignment in Sardinian

Phonological phrasing in Germanic: the judgement of history, confirmed through experiment

Prosodic Noun Incorporation: The Relationship between Prosody and Argument Structure in Niuean

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