Clitics and Grammatical Theory

这个项目探索了两个表面上非常不同的语言结构领域之间似乎有着深刻而令人惊讶的联系：一方面，clitic元素（如罗曼语代词，Warlpiri语代词等）。另一方面，词的形态特征的形式反映。P1在先前的研究中发展了一种关于词的结构及其相互关系的理论，称为“A-形态学”，其中一个重要的组成部分是声称，附着词在短语中的功能与词缀（和其他形态标记）在词中的功能非常相似。这项研究旨在发展和探索这种观察的后果。 将要进行的研究将丰富我们对语言结构（音系学，形态学和句法）及其相互关系的一些领域的理解。它还将导致我们对一系列当前语言学理论的理解，包括A-Morphous Morphology，优选理论和最简句法。作为研究这些理论问题的副产品，该项目还将导致对具有丰富但缺乏文献记载的clitics系统的语言的描述性研究，例如瑞士和意大利的Rumantsch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.