Procliticization as a residual of second positioning: evidence from West Iranian languages-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Procliticization as a residual of second positioning: evidence from West Iranian languages

Published:2021-10-14 Issue:s42-s2 Volume:55 Page:291-338
ISSN:0165-4004
Container-title:Folia Linguistica
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Author:

Mohammadirad Masoud¹^ORCID,Samvelian Pollet²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 , Paris , France

2. Lattice UMR 8094 , University of Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 , Paris , France

Abstract

Abstract Person clitics show proclitic attachment in some West Iranian languages. Nevertheless, most of the literature has continued to focus on enclitics. This paper provides evidence that a good number of modern languages have developed proclitics, presumably from the middle Iranian period onward. Using synchronic data from modern languages gathered in the field, and contrasting it with the Middle Iranian period and current clausal second-position clitic systems, we develop some hypotheses regarding the rise of proclitics in modern languages. We argue that proclitic attachment has resulted from the reanalysis and/or the loss of clause-initial clitic hosting particles of the Middle Iranian period, and the actualization of the stray clitic as a proclitic on some host to the right. This trajectory from second position enclitics to proclitics, which is also attested in Old Romance and Uto-Aztecan, is argued to have been triggered by head attraction and rightward drift of clitics from clause-second position toward the verb in modern languages, giving rise to VP-based and Verb-based cliticization systems.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/flin-2021-2024/pdf

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