Contextual Neutralization and the Elsewhere Principle
Contextual Neutralization and the Elsewhere Principle
Against the setting of this book, this chapter looks at the background of developments in phonological and morphological theory of the last forty-odd years, largely those arising from contributions by Morris Halle and his collaborators. The chapter shows that the Basque clitic system, with a three-way case distinction available among its clitics, abandons the full utilization of such distinctions in a specific morphosyntactic context, namely left-adjacency to the auxiliary root.
Keywords: phonological theory, morphological theory, Morris Halle, Basque clitic system, morphosyntactic context, auxiliary root
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