SECOND PLACE CLITICS IN TAGALOG, SUBJACENCY CONSTRAINTS AND PROSODICALLY CONSTRAINED GRAMMATICALITY

SECOND PLACE CLITICS IN TAGALOG, SUBJACENCY CONSTRAINTS AND PROSODICALLY CONSTRAINED GRAMMATICALITY

Author:  Toyoko Kang

Affiliation:  University of Guam, USA

Abstract: 

A type of Tagalog sentences with second place clitics violates Subjacency but grammatical. This paper argues that those sentences are grammatical because they are uttered in one intonation phrase, which makes the filler-gap identification process easier.

Keywords:  second place clitics, subjacency constraint, Tagalog and Japanese sentence structures, prosodically constrained grammaticality

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Pages:  431-436