| ROA: | 521 |
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| Title: | The placement of enclitics in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian |
| Authors: | Rob OConnor |
| Comment: | This article has been submitted to Journal of Linguistics. |
| Length: | 41 |
| Abstract: | This paper proposes a prosodic account of alternating 'second position' enclitic placement in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. In these languages enclitics are usually described as following either a) the first syntactic phrasal constituent in the clause, or b) the first prosodic word (PRWD) in the clause. I propose that enclitic placement is best characterized as a) attachment to the first phonological phrase (PHONP) within the intonational phrase (INTP), or b) attachment to the first PRWD within INTP. In doing so I build upon the phrasal affixation approach to cliticization of Anderson (1996, 2000). |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Phonology, Morphology, Syntax |
| Article: | Version 1 |