Re: THEORY: Question on Wackernaegel's Position
| From: | dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 24, 2000, 16:20 |
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, BP Jonsson wrote:
> At 16:46 23.7.2000 -0400, Tim Smith wrote:
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> >In languages where most things like unstressed pronouns and auxiliaries are
> >enclitics that cluster after the first constituent of the clause (for
> >example, Serbo-Croat), does this happen in the main clause only, or in both
> >main and subordinate clauses?
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> In all clauses -- and the rule of course applies only to older IndoEuropean
> languages! :-)
Well, perhaps Wackernagel would have included more languages if he had
known about them. Many of the Uto-Aztecan languages, for example, have
second position clitics; well developed analyses exist for Luiseno and
O'odham, and off the top of my head I can think of Tubatulabal,
Southern Paiute, and Comanche as well. I'm sure there are many more
languages in the world with second position clitic strings; it's not
just an IE thing.
Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga
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