Pronominal cliticization in European Portuguese

Pronominal clitics in the Romance languages are known to display affix-like behaviour. This fact has led to proposals, such as Zwicky (1987) and Halpern (1995) for European Portuguese (EP), that pronominal clitics behave like lexical affixes because they are (inflectional) affixes. In this paper we...

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Autor: Vigário, Marina
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1999
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Pronominal clitics
Cliticization
European Portuguese
Clítics pronominals
Cliticització
Portuguès europeu
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spelling Pronominal cliticization in European Portuguesea postlexical operationVigário, MarinaPronominal cliticsCliticizationEuropean PortugueseClítics pronominalsCliticitzacióPortuguès europeuPronominal clitics in the Romance languages are known to display affix-like behaviour. This fact has led to proposals, such as Zwicky (1987) and Halpern (1995) for European Portuguese (EP), that pronominal clitics behave like lexical affixes because they are (inflectional) affixes. In this paper we argue against such an analysis of EP pronominal clitics. First, we present a bulk of phenomena -including distributional facts, the (non-)application of phonological rules, and the (non)application of morphophonological rules- that clearly differentiate EP pronominal clitics from inflectional affixes, and argue for the postlexical combination of verbs and clitics. We then survey the arguments put forward in favour of the lexical attachment of pronominal clitics in EP, and show that these are not compelling arguments for the lexical hypothesis. We conclude that pronominal cliticization must be treated as a postlexical operation in EP.Els clítics pronominals en les llengües romàniques tenen un comportament semblant als afixos. Aquest fet ha inspirat propostes, com la de Zwicky (1987) i Halpern (1995) per al portuguès europeu (EP), que defensen que els clítics pronominals es comporten com afixos lèxics perquè són afixos (inflectius). En aquest article discutim una anàlisi com aquesta dels clítics pronominals de l'EP. En primer lloc, presentem un conjunt de fenòmens -que inclouen distribució, la (no-)aplicació de les regles fonològiques, i la (no-)aplicació de les regles morfofonològiques- que diferencien clarament els clítics pronominals del PE dels afixos inflectius, i defensem la combinació postlèxica de verbs i clítics. Després mostrem els arguments a favor de l'adjunció lèxica dels clítics pronominals en PE, i demostrem que no són arguments suficients per a la hipòtesi lèxica. Concloem que la cliticització pronominal s'ha de tractar com una operació postlèxica en PE. 11999-01-0119991999-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/2212reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest material està protegit per drets d'autor i/o drets afins. Podeu utilitzar aquest material en funció del que permet la legislació de drets d'autor i drets afins d'aplicació al vostre cas. Per a d'altres usos heu d'obtenir permís del(s) titular(s) de drets.https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:22122026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Pronominal cliticization in European Portuguese
a postlexical operation
title Pronominal cliticization in European Portuguese
spellingShingle Pronominal cliticization in European Portuguese
Vigário, Marina
Pronominal clitics
Cliticization
European Portuguese
Clítics pronominals
Cliticització
Portuguès europeu
title_short Pronominal cliticization in European Portuguese
title_full Pronominal cliticization in European Portuguese
title_fullStr Pronominal cliticization in European Portuguese
title_full_unstemmed Pronominal cliticization in European Portuguese
title_sort Pronominal cliticization in European Portuguese
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Vigário, Marina
author Vigário, Marina
author_facet Vigário, Marina
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Pronominal clitics
Cliticization
European Portuguese
Clítics pronominals
Cliticització
Portuguès europeu
topic Pronominal clitics
Cliticization
European Portuguese
Clítics pronominals
Cliticització
Portuguès europeu
description Pronominal clitics in the Romance languages are known to display affix-like behaviour. This fact has led to proposals, such as Zwicky (1987) and Halpern (1995) for European Portuguese (EP), that pronominal clitics behave like lexical affixes because they are (inflectional) affixes. In this paper we argue against such an analysis of EP pronominal clitics. First, we present a bulk of phenomena -including distributional facts, the (non-)application of phonological rules, and the (non)application of morphophonological rules- that clearly differentiate EP pronominal clitics from inflectional affixes, and argue for the postlexical combination of verbs and clitics. We then survey the arguments put forward in favour of the lexical attachment of pronominal clitics in EP, and show that these are not compelling arguments for the lexical hypothesis. We conclude that pronominal cliticization must be treated as a postlexical operation in EP.
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