%0 Journal Article
%T A Typology of Stranded Phonologically Weak Elements
%A Bošković, Željko
%J Studies in Polish Linguistics
%V Volume 18 (2023)
%R 10.4467/23005920SPL.23.005.18680
%N Vol. 18, Issue 3
%P 85-95
%K clitics, particle-stranding ellipsis, prosodic phrasing, preposition stranding
%@ 1732-8160
%D 2023
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studies-in-polish-linguistics/article/a-typology-of-stranded-phonologically-weak-elements
%X 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.