ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
Online ISSN : 1884-3107
Print ISSN : 0918-3701
ISSN-L : 0918-3701
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MATCH AS SYNTAX-PROSODY MAX/DEP: PROSODIC ENCLISIS IN ENGLISH
JUNKO ITOARMIN MESTER
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2019 Volume 36 Issue 1 Pages 1-28

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This paper proposes to subsume Syntax-Prosody Match Theory under General Correspondence Theory, which distinguishes purely existential Max/Dep constraints (requiring nothing but the existence of a correspondent in the output/input, which can be rather different from the input element) from Ident and other faithfulness constraints. Exact correspondence (preservation of edges, no deletion, no insertion, uniqueness of mapping, order preservation, etc.) is enforced by Syntax-Prosody and Prosody-Syntax Alignment and by standard Faithfulness. The empirical topic is the impossibility of phrase-final enclisis in English (*I don't know where Tom's vs. Tom's here) and its proper explanation.

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