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A Typology of Stranded Phonologically Weak Elements

Publication date: 2023

Studies in Polish Linguistics, Volume 18 (2023), Vol. 18, Issue 3, pp. 85 - 95

https://doi.org/10.4467/23005920SPL.23.005.18680

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Željko Bošković
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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A Typology of Stranded Phonologically Weak Elements

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The paper presents a unified account of a number of superficially very different cases from Japanese, Serbo-Croatian, German, and Dutch where a phonologically weak element is stranded without a host. It proposes a new typology regarding when a phonologically weak element can be stranded where adjacency to a prosodic boundary is necessary for such stranding, with parametrization regarding the strength of the prosodic boundary: it can be an utterance boundary (║) or an intonational-phrase boundary (#), or either║or # (in the last case, both boundaries can license the stranding). Furthermore, the difference in the direction of adjacency to the prosodic boundary mirrors the difference in the adjacency to the host: if the relevant element is a prefix/proclitic, both the host and the prosodic boundary follow it, if it is an enclitic/suffix, they both precede it.

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Information: Studies in Polish Linguistics, Volume 18 (2023), Vol. 18, Issue 3, pp. 85 - 95

Article type: Original article

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University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA

Published at: 2023

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