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似乎深层次和令人惊讶的联系：一方面，派系元素(如罗曼代词、Warlpiri助词等)。另一方面，形式化地反映了词的形态特征。一种关于词的结构及其相互关系的理论，由P1在以前的研究中发展起来，被称为“A-Morphous Morphology”，作为一个重要组成部分，它声称词尾在短语中的作用与词内词缀(和其他形态标记)填充的功能密切平行。这项研究旨在发展和探索这一观察的结果。即将进行的研究将丰富我们对语言结构(语音、词法和句法)的一些领域及其相互关系的理解。它还将导致我们对一系列当前语言理论的理解的精炼，包括A-形态词法、优选论和最简句法。作为对这类理论问题研究的副产品，该项目还将对具有丰富但记录较少的派别系统的语言进行描述性研究，例如瑞士和意大利的鲁曼奇方言。

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.