Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-924633-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax provides a synchronic description and analysis of a phenomenon that appears to be unique among languages that have been brought to the attention of linguists, namely the occurrence of endoclitics. Alice Harris demonstrates that syntactic rules must have access to the internal structure of the word.

The early chapters of the book show that the morphemes at issue are clitics (as opposed to affixes), that the items inside which they may occur are words (as opposed to phrases), and that the clitics occur inside these words under specifiable conditions. The second part of the book describes how Udi came to be so different from other languages, and in doing so explains the origins of the phenomenon explored in the first part.

The book will appeal to theoretical linguists, especially those interested in the interface between syntax and morphology. It will also be of considerable interest to historical linguists and students of Caucasian languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, Alice C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: The Problem

- 1.: The Problem and the Approach

- Part II: Endoclitics in Udi

- 2.: Introduction to the Synchrony: Sketch of Some Grammatical Phenomena

- 3.: Focus

- 4.: Complex Verbs

- 5.: Clitic Properties

- 6.: The Position of Clitics in Udi

- 7.: An Optimality Theory Approach

- Part III: The Explanation

- 8.: Introduction to the Diachrony: Origins of Udi Morphosyntax

- 9.: Development of the Udi Verb out of its Proto-Lezgian Sources

- 10.: Focus Clefts and the Origins of Focus in Udi

- 11.: Changes in Case-Marking Patterns

- 12.: Explaining the Origins of the Person Marker Positions

Über Autor(innen)

Alice C. Harris received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1976 and is Professor of Linguistics (since 1991), Professor of Anthropology (since 1992), and Chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages at Vanderbilt University. She is author, co-author, or editor of four books and numerous articles in the field of general linguistics. At Vanderbilt University she teaches courses on linguistic analysis, language and cognition, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, and historical linguistics.