Clitics and Grammatical Theory

9876456anderson这个项目探索了表面上相当不同的两个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（如浪漫代词），另一方面是单词属性的形式标记（“语素”）。PI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，其中一个重要的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。本研究发展并探索了这一观察的结果。修饰语系统可能涉及许多语法领域的相互作用，如在他加禄语中，句法、音系和短语形态的独立原则结合在一起，产生了一套复杂的模式。这项研究将丰富我们对语言结构（音韵学、形态学和句法）及其相互关系的许多领域的理解，以及对当前一系列语言理论的改进。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的描述性研究，例如库尔德语和布列塔尼语。

9876456ANDERSONThis 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) and on the other, formal markers of the properties of words ("morphemes"). A theory of the structure of words and of their relations to one another, developed in previous research by the PI, 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 develops and explores the consequences of that observation.Clitic systems may involve the interaction of many areas of grammar, as in Tagalog, where independent principles of syntax, phonology, and phrasal morphology combine to yield an intricate set of patterns. This research will enrich our understanding of a number of areas of linguistic structure (phonology, morphology and syntax) and their inter-relation, as well as refinements in a range of current linguistic theories. As a by-product of research into these theoretical questions, the project will also result in descriptive studies of languages with rich but poorly documented systems of clitics, such as Kurdish and Breton.