| ROA: | 422 |
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| Title: | On the phonological conditioning of clitic placement in Zapotec |
| Authors: | George Aaron Broadwell |
| Comment: | A paper presented at the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas, March 2000, University of Toronto. |
| Length: | 18 |
| Abstract: | On the phonological conditioning of clitic placement in Zapotec George Aaron Broadwell University of Albany, State University of New York Clitic placement in San Dionicio Ocotepec Zapotec is determined by a combination of syntactic and phonological factors. The most important of these is alignment with the edge of a phonological phrase. In an optimality-theoretic account, it is possible to rank some phonological alignment constraints above syntactic alignment constraints in a way that correctly accounts for the data. Alternatives which seek to derive clitic placement through syntactic movement operations face insuperable problems with the range of positions in which these clitics appear. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
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| Article: | Part 1 Part 2 |