Clitics and Grammatical Theory

这个项目探索了两个表面上相当不同的语言结构领域之间的深刻而令人惊讶的联系：一方面是修辞元素（如罗曼语代词、瓦尔皮里语助词等），另一方面是单词形态属性的形式反映。P1在之前的研究中发展了一种关于单词结构及其相互关系的理论，被称为“A- morphous形态学”，它的一个重要组成部分是断言词缀在短语中的作用与词缀（和其他形态标记）在单词中的作用非常相似。本研究旨在发展和探索这一观察结果的后果。所进行的研究将丰富我们对语言结构（音系、词法和句法）及其相互关系的许多领域的理解。它也将导致我们对一系列当前语言学理论的理解的改进，包括a - morphous形态学，优化理论和极简语法。作为对这些理论问题的研究的副产品，该项目还将导致对具有丰富但缺乏文献记录的语言系统的描述性研究，例如瑞士和意大利的罗曼语方言。

This project explores what appear to be deep and surprising connections between two areas of linguistic structure that are superficially quite diverse: on the one hand, clitic elements (such as Romance pronominals, Warlpiri Auxiliaries, etc.) and on the other, formal reflections of the morphological properties of words. A theory of the structure of words and of their relations to one another, developed in previous research by the P1 and known as "A-Morphous Morphology," has as one important component the claim that clitics serve a function within the phrase which is closely parallel to that filled by affixes (and other morphological markers) within words. This research intends to develop and explore the consequences of that observation. The research to be conducted will enrich our understanding of a number of areas of linguistic structure (phonology, morphology and syntax) and their inter-relation. It will also lead to refinements in our understanding of a range of current linguistic theories, including A-Morphous Morphology, Optimality Theory, and Minimalist syntax. As a by-product of research into such theoretical questions, the project will also result in descriptive studies of languages with rich but poorly documented systems of clitics, such as the Rumantsch dialects of Switzerland and Italy.