Phrasal affixes

[Borsley R D]

Thanks. I did more or less read the thesis some time ago. I'm told though
that edge inflections are not quite the same thing as phrasal affixes.
This matters to me because Welsh has certain 'clitics' which I don't think
can be edge inflections bt might be phrasal affixes as I understsnd the
notion (which is not very well).

best

Bob

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Philip Miller wrote:

> A 15:33 29/06/2004 +0100, Borsley R D a écrit :
> >Does anyone know of any HPSG work employing Anderson's notion of a phrasal
> >affix?
>
>
> Dear Bob,
>
> My PhD thesis (Clitics and Constituents in Phrase Structure Grammar, 1992,
> Garland, New York, out of print, but there is a downloadable version at
> http://www.univ-lille3.fr/silex/miller/these_en.html, and I can send a
> printed copy if needed) proposed a formalization of phrasal affixes in
> terms of something I called the Edge Feature Principle. This was in part
> developed in joint work with Aaron Halpern, and some discussion can also be
> found in the published verison of his dissertation (Halpern, Aaron L. 1995.
> On the placement and morphology of clitics.  Stanford: CSLI publications.).
> The discussion was in a hybrid GPSG / HPSG framework, with feature
> percolation principles a la GPSG, but valence features. It may still be of
> use, however,
>
> Best,
> Philip
>

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