On the prosodification of affixes and clitics (Part ІI)  Cover Image
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За прозодификацията на афиксите и клитиките. Част IІ
On the prosodification of affixes and clitics (Part ІI)

Author(s): Ivailo Burov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«

Summary/Abstract: This paper offers a unified account of the phonological aspects of morpholexical and morphosyntactic processes such as compounding, affixation and cliticisation which often lead to mismatches between morphological and prosodic constituency. In the Prosodic phonology framework these three processes can be illustrated by three possible operations according to the nature and the combinatorial proprieties of the morphemes in the language under consideration, but also according to the degree of cohesion between stems, bound roots, affixes and clitics: splitting in two phonological words, adjunction or incorporation in the phonological word. This claim is supported and illustrated by data from English, Classical Latin, Italian, Neapolitan, Modern Greek, Dutch, Japanese, Ossetic and Southern Paiute.