Clitics and Grammatical Theory

9876456ANDERSON这个项目探索了语言结构的两个领域之间似乎是深刻的和令人惊讶的联系，这两个领域表面上是非常不同的：一方面，clitic元素（如罗曼语代词），另一方面，词的属性的形式标记（“语素”）。 PI在以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，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。本研究发展并探索了这一观察的结果。附着系统可能涉及语法的许多领域的相互作用，如在Taglitic中，句法、音系和短语形态学的独立原则联合收割机结合在一起，产生一套复杂的模式。这项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，以及对当前语言理论的一系列改进。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，例如库尔德语和布雷东语。

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.