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The placement of second-position subject clitics in Alsea

@inproceedings{Sui2011ThePO,
  title={The placement of second-position subject clitics in Alsea},
  author={Yanyan Sui},
  year={2011}
}

• Yanyan Sui
• Published 2011
• Computer Science

This paper aims to spell out the post-syntactic operations involved in the placement of secondposition subject clitics in Alsea, an extinct language of the central Oregon coast. It assumes that the subject clitic is a syntactic head that is moved to a complementizer position in syntax, but is linearized in a post-syntactic morphological component in PF; operations in morphology account for the deviation of the subject clitic from its syntactic output position. Based on Buckley (1994), this… Expand

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