Zwicky criteria for affixhood: Applications to some problematic elements Arabic syntax
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The lexicalist hypothesis is one of the theories used in the analysis and
explanation of linguistic phenomena. In the ideas of this theory, the syntax
cannot manipulate nor have an access to the internal form of words. To adopt
this theory, it is necessary to figure out the status of certain problematic
elements to analyse them: are they best accounted in syntax or in lexicon
? In almost languages, certain morphemes are problematic because of
their status which is not clear between independant words and affixes.
The intermediary status of such items was recognized by structuralist
and comparatist linguists which called them clitics. Clitics were defined
essentially in term of their deficiency of an independant prosodic status:
they are phonologicaly dependent on a host on which they rest on, a
property generally related to prosodic caracteristics that prevent them to
be counted as phonologic words. Nevertheless, this accentual deficiency
is also caracteristic of affixes: the two types of morphemes always appear
attached to other constituents. Thus, appeared the need to establish explicit
distinctive criteria. Our discussion focus on different criteria that can
account for certain arabic problematic elements. Therefore, the paper is
quite important and give fragments that show the application of some of
these criteria to some arabic phenomena through new works.
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