Clitics and Grammatical Theory

附着词与语法理论

• 批准号: 9876456
• 负责人: Stephen Anderson
• 金额: $ 21.97万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-02-01 至 2003-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9876456&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Clitics; Grammatical; Theory

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.

9876456ANDERSON该项目探讨了表面上截然不同的两个语言结构领域之间看似深刻且令人惊讶的联系：一方面是附着元素（例如浪漫代词），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，该理论的一个重要组成部分是声称附着词在短语中的功能与单词中词缀（和其他形态标记）所填充的功能非常相似。这项研究发展并探索了这一观察的结果。附着词系统可能涉及许多语法领域的相互作用，例如他加禄语，其中句法、音韵学和短语形态的独立原则结合起来产生一组复杂的模式。这项研究将丰富我们对语言结构（音韵学、形态学和句法）的许多领域及其相互关系的理解，以及对当前一系列语言理论的完善。作为这些理论问题研究的副产品，该项目还将对具有丰富但文献记载很少的附属系统的语言（例如库尔德语和布列塔尼语）进行描述性研究。