Citation:
Szczegielniak, Adam. 2005. “Clitic positions within the Left Periphery: evidence for a phonological buffer.” Clitic and Affix Combinations, edited by L Heggie and P Ordonez, 283-299. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Copy at https://tinyurl.com/y9f79cnr
Abstract:
In this paper I will argue that Polish auxiliary clitics provide additional evidence for adopting Rizzi’s (1997) expanded structure of the Left Periphery (LP) by arguing that auxiliary clitics are a phonological manifestation of the morphological properties of the Fin head. This will be supported by examples of auxiliary clitics demarcating Focus/Topic constructions from material within IP. Further support will come from examples where auxiliary clitics interact with LF operations like reconstruction and reflexive interpretation. However, I will also show that syntactic operations over-generate possible outputs and that we need to postulate a phonological buffer which filters syntactic output.
ISBN-13: 978 1 58811 611 6
