Clitic positioning in Ossetic

Abstract

We present data regarding the positioning of clitics in the Iron dialect of Ossetic, which is in some respects similar to data for ‘second-position’ clitics in more familiar languages, but in other respects is considerably more complicated. We propose a formal analysis which makes use of Optimality Theoretic LFG with stochastic re-ranking of constraints, which is able to capture the full range of the data, while avoiding having to assume the controversial phenomenon of clitic ‘movement’.

Publication
Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King (eds.). Proceedings of the LFG15 Conference. Stanford: CSLI Publications
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