[Lingtyp] Fwd: Morphologically complex clitics?

[João Veloso]

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De: João Veloso <velosolinguist at gmail.com>
Date: terça, 30 de mar de 2021, 12:46
Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Morphologically complex clitics?
To: <florian.matter at isw.unibe.ch>


Hi!


Portuguese admits pronominal clitics which are morphologically complex, as
they embed syntactic information about direct and indirect objects.

One example:

*lhos*
lhe                                     + o
       + s
PP DAT.                          PP ACC MASC.                      PLURAL
(pluralization of PP Acc)
3rd. p.                              3rd. p.

"Eu dei           -     lhos."
I     gave               him(dat.)+them(acc.)+PL
I gave them to him. (=I gave him the books.)



(Sorry for the glosses.)

These cases are very frequent in Portuguese indeed.


João

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<florian.matter at isw.unibe.ch> escreveu no dia terça, 30/03/2021 à(s) 12:36:

> Dear all,
>
> I am looking for examples of morphologically complex clitics — i.e.,
> g-words that a) do not form their own p-words and b) consist of multiple
> morphemes. Below are some of the few examples I have found. In (1-2), it is
> an encliticized copula which carries person inflection. In (3), the verb
> complex consists of a finite verb, a converb, and an auxiliary, each their
> own g-word. Both the finite verb and the auxiliary are inflected for first
> person and therefore morphologically complex.
>
> (1) Trió (Cariban)
>     əmamina-nə=pəə*=w-a-e*
>     play-INF=occ.with=1Sa-be-NPST.CERT
>     'I am playing' (Meira 1999: 180)
>
> (2) Ecuadorian Quechua
>     paj  mana wasi-bi=t͡ʃu*=ga-n*
>     3PRO NEG  house-LOC=NEG=be-3
>     'S/he is not at home.' (Muysken 2010: 197)
>
> (3) Nangikurrunggurr (Southern Daly)
>     jawul karicinmade *ŋebem=*wuɹic*=ŋiɹim*                catma
>     spear bent        1SG.S.bash.PRS=fix=1SG.S.sit.PRS straight
>     'I'm sitting straightening this bent spear.' (Reid 2003: 114)
>
> I am grateful for any further examples of such patterns, or references to
> literature on morphologically complex clitics.
>
> Best,
> Florian
>
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