Clitics

Question 1

Clitics

Answer 1

Bound morphemes that attach to SYNTACTIC CONSTITUENTS instead of words/roots/stems

Question 2

What are the three things we need to specify for a clitic

Answer 2

Domain (what it’s attaching to), Position within domain (ex. before the last word), direction of phonological dependency (enclitic/leans left like a suffix OR proclitic/leans right like prefix(

Question 3

For the clitic =s in English, what’s the domain, position, and direction?

Answer 3

Domain: attaches to noun phrase constituent
Position: after the last word of the possessor noun phrase
Direction: leans left phonologically

[Peter]’s phone
[The cat]’s paw
[The person I was talking to]’s cat
[The guy I like]’s dog

Question 4

For the clitic =’ll in english, what is the domain, position, and direction?

Answer 4

Domain: verb phrase
Position: before the first word of the verb phrase
direction: leans left phonologically

I’ll [go]
The person’ll [make you] some sandwiches
The girl you just saw’ll [let you know] when it’s ready

Question 5

Whats the difference between enclitics and proclitics?

Answer 5

Enclitics lean left like a suffix =enclitic
proclitics lean right like a prefix
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Question 6

For the clitic =n’t in english, what is the domain, position, and direction?

Answer 6

Domain: verb phrase
Position: after the first word of verb phrase
Direction: leans left phonologically