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Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax Alice C. Harris (Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Vanderbilt University)

Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax By Alice C. Harris (Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Vanderbilt University)

Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax by Alice C. Harris (Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Vanderbilt University)


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Providing a description and analysis of the occurrence of endoclitics, this book demonstrates that syntactic rules must have access to the internal structure of the word. Aimed at theoretical and historical linguists, and students, it shows how Udi came to be so different from other languages, and how in this sense it explains the phenomenon.

Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax Summary

Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax by Alice C. Harris (Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Vanderbilt University)

Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax provides a synchronic description and analysis of a phenomenon that appears to be unique among languages that have been brought to the attention of linguists, namely the occurrence of endoclitics. Alice Harris demonstrates that syntactic rules must have access to the internal structure of the word. The early chapters of the book show that the morphemes at issue are clitics (as opposed to affixes), that the items inside which they may occur are words (as opposed to phrases), and that the clitics occur inside these words under specifiable conditions. The second part of the book describes how Udi came to be so different from other languages, and in doing so explains the origins of the phenomenon explored in the first part. The book will appeal to theoretical linguists, especially those interested in the interface between syntax and morphology. It will also be of considerable interest to historical linguists and students of Caucasian languages.

About Alice C. Harris (Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Vanderbilt University)

Alice C. Harris received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1976 and is Professor of Linguistics (since 1991), Professor of Anthropology (since 1992), and Chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages at Vanderbilt University. She is author, co-author, or editor of four books and numerous articles in the field of general linguistics. At Vanderbilt University she teaches courses on linguistic analysis, language and cognition, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, and historical linguistics.

Table of Contents

PART I: THE PROBLEM ; PART II: ENDOCLITICS IN UDI ; PART III: THE EXPLANATION

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NPB9780199246335
9780199246335
0199246335
Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax by Alice C. Harris (Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, Vanderbilt University)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press
2002-03-28
316
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