Endoclitics and the origins of Udi morphosyntax
By: Alice C. Harris.
Series: Oxford linguistics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Udi language -- Morphosyntax; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clitics
Notes: Includes text in Udi.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-295) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I. The Problem; title: 1. The Problem and the Approach; title: 1.1. Problems to Be Addressed and Goals; title: 1.2. What is Udi?; title: 1.3. A Brief Overview; title: 1.4. History of Research; title: 1.5. The Theoretical Basis of This Work; title: Part II. Endoclitics in Udi; title: 2. Introduction to the Synchrony: Sketch of Some; title: Grammatical Phenomena; title: 2.1. Declension; title: 2.2. Use of Case Marking; title: 2.3. Introduction to the Structure of the Udi Verb; title: 2.4. The Tense-Aspect-Mood System; title: 2.5. Person Marking; title: 2.6. Passive?; title: 2.7. Word Order; title: 2.8. Summary; title: Appendix: On the Analysis of Verbstems in Udi; title: 3. Focus; title: 3.1. Introduction; title: 3.2. Identifying Focus; title: 3.3. Types of Focus Structure; title: 3.4 Conclusion; title: 4. Complex Verbs; title: 4.1. Complex Verbs in Udi; title: 4.2. The Simplex Status of Verbs in b-; title: 4.3. Other Simplex Verbs; title: 4.4. The Complex Verb as a Single Word; title: 4.5. Incorporation and Argument Structure; title: 4.6. Conclusions; title: 5. Clitic Properties; title: 5.1. Zwicky and Pullum; title: 5.2. Klavans; title: 5.3. Scalise; title: 5.4. Romance Clitics; title: 5.5. Agreement; title: 5.6. Discussion; title: 6. The Position of Clitics in Udi; title: 6.1. Rules of Person Marker Placement; title: 6.2. Clitic Order; title: 6.3. The PAST Clitic; title: 6.4. The Rules for -al in Schiefner's Texts; title: 6.5. Permissive Placement; title: 6.6. Compound Verbs; title: 6.7. Predicting Person Marker Placement; title: 6.8. Stress and Person Marker Placement; title: 6.9. Conclusions; title: 7. An Optimality Theory Approach; title: 7.1. Optimality Theory and Clitic Order; title: 7.2. The Grammar; title: 7.3. An Optimality Theory Account of Modern Okt'omber; title: Speech; title: 7.4. On the Morphology-Syntax Interface; title: 7.5. Conclusion; title: Part III. The Explanation; title: 8. Introduction to the Diachrony: Origins of Udi Morphosyntax; title: 8.1. Relationships within the North East Caucasian Family; title: and within the Lezgian Subgroup; title: 8.2. Inherited Case Marking; title: 8.3. Inherited Agreement; title: 8.4. Development of Udi Person Markers; title: 8.5. Origins of the Question Form, -a; title: 8.6. Summary; title: 9. Development of the Udi Verb out of its Proto-Lezgian Sources; title: 9.1. Reconstruction of the Structure of the Proto-Lezgian Verb; title: 9.2. Old Udi Evidence; title: 9.3. The Renewal of Complex Verbs in Udi; title: 9.4. Hypotheses Concerning the Origins of Endoclisis in the Udi; title: Verb; title: 9.5. Comparison and Evaluation of Hypotheses B, C, and D; title: Appendix: Diachronic Analysis of the Verbs of Motion; title: lo. Focus Clefts and the Origins of Focus in Udi; title: lo.l. Focus Clefts in North East Caucasian Languages; title: 10.2. Relics of Focus Clefts in Nineteenth-Century Udi; title: 10.3. Origins of the Focus Position of the Person Marker; title: 10.4. Conclusion; title: n. Changes in Case-Marking Patterns; title: 11.1. Synchrony: Use of Absolutive and Dative for Direct Objects; title: 11.2. Diachrony: Origins of the Absolutive vs. Dative Distinction; title: 11.3. Diachrony: Origins of Ergative Subjects of Intransitive Verbs; title: 11.4. Diachrony: Loss of the Inherited Inversion Pattern; title: 11.5. Alignment Changes and Language Universals; title: 11.6. Summary; title: 12. Explaining the Origins of the Person Marker Positions; title: 12.1. Origin of Person Marker Patterns Involving Argument-Focus; title: 12.2. Origins of Patterns in which the Person Marker is Endoclitic; title: 12.3. Person Markers in Forms Containing the PAST Clitic -i/-y; title: 12.4. Pattern lo (V-T Neg-PM); title: 12.5. Origins of the Verb-Final Position; title: 12.6. Summary Table; title: 12.7. Person Marker Placement and Stress; title: 12.8. Conclusion.