Verb-Clitic Structures in Eivissan Catalan

This paper deals with stress shift in verb-clitic structures in Eivissan Catalan, an understudied Romance variety. Within Balearic Catalan, this is the only subdialect in which stress shift is restricted to apply only in second conjugation pre-clitic infinitives, those that, as opposed to other conj...

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Autores: Torres-Tamarit, Francesc|||0000-0003-3646-7545, Bonet, Eulàlia|||0000-0002-8605-4741
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:216054
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/216054
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/catjl.253
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Allomorphy
Clitic
Eivissan catalan
Prosodic word
Recursivity
Stress shift
Al·lomorfia
Clític
Eivissenc
Mot prosòdic
Recursivitat
Desplaçament accentual
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Sumario:This paper deals with stress shift in verb-clitic structures in Eivissan Catalan, an understudied Romance variety. Within Balearic Catalan, this is the only subdialect in which stress shift is restricted to apply only in second conjugation pre-clitic infinitives, those that, as opposed to other conjugations, have penultimate stress when they are pronounced in isolation. Stress in second conjugation infinitives in Eivissan Catalan shifts one syllable to the right, that is, to the final syllable of the verbal stem, when one or more pronominal enclitics follow. There is no stress shift in pre-clitic imperatives. We claim that pronominal enclitics in Eivissan Catalan adjoin to a recursive, maximal prosodic word, and that the domain for stress assignment is the minimal, embedded prosodic word. We further analyze two cases of stress-conditioned allomorphy (i.e. allomorphy of the infinitive morph and allomorphy of the verbal root) that occur in infinitive-clitic structures.