Clitics and Grammatical Theory

9876456ANDERSON他的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有着深刻而令人惊讶的联系：一方面，派系元素(如罗曼蒂克代词)，另一方面，单词属性的形式标记(“语素”)。作为一个重要组成部分，PI在之前的研究中提出了一种关于词的结构及其相互关系的理论，即词缀在短语中的作用与词中词缀(和其他形态标记)填充的功能密切平行。这项研究发展并探索了这一观察的结果。倾向性系统可能涉及许多语法领域的相互作用，如他加路语，其中独立的句法、音系学和短语形态原则结合在一起，产生了一套错综复杂的模式。这项研究将丰富我们对语言结构的一些领域(语音、词法和句法)及其相互关系的理解，以及对当前一系列语言理论的完善。作为对这些理论问题研究的副产品，该项目还将对库尔德语和布列塔尼语等语言进行描述性研究，这些语言具有丰富但记录较少的派别系统。

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.