Clitics and Grammatical Theory

附着词与语法理论

• 批准号: 9514682
• 负责人: Stephen Anderson
• 金额: $ 13.2万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-09-01 至 1999-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9514682&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Clitics; Grammatical; Theory

This 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, Warlpiri Auxiliaries, etc.) and on the other, formal reflections of the morphological properties of words. A theory of the structure of words and of their relations to one another, developed in previous research by the P1 and known as "A-Morphous Morphology," 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 intends to develop and explore the consequences of that observation. The research to be conducted will enrich our understanding of a number of areas of linguistic structure (phonology, morphology and syntax) and their inter-relation. It will also lead to refinements in our understanding of a range of current linguistic theories, including A-Morphous Morphology, Optimality Theory, and Minimalist syntax. As a by-product of research into such theoretical questions, the project will also result in descriptive studies of languages with rich but poorly documented systems of clitics, such as the Rumantsch dialects of Switzerland and Italy.

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，附着元素（例如浪漫代词、Warlpiri 助动词等），另一方面，语言结构的形式反映词的形态特征。 P1 在之前的研究中开发了一种关于单词结构及其相互关系的理论，称为“A-形态形态学”，它的一个重要组成部分是声称附着词在短语中发挥着一种功能，该功能与短语密切相关。与单词中的词缀（和其他形态标记）填充的平行。这项研究旨在发展和探索该观察结果的后果。 即将进行的研究将丰富我们对语言结构（音系学、形态学和句法）的许多领域及其相互关系的理解。它还将改进我们对一系列当前语言理论的理解，包括 A-形态形态学、最优理论和极简句法。作为对此类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着系统的语言进行描述性研究，例如瑞士和意大利的罗曼语方言。