- What are clitics?
- They are not words.
- Evidence: they can’t be stressed
- They are not prefixes or suffixes.
- Evidence: they don’t cause certain changes in the word that a prefix or suffix would cause.
- Evidence: any given prefix or suffix can attach to one kind of word (for example, only nouns or only verbs). Some clitics attach to whatever is nearby.
Example: Spanish clitic pronouns (Data to be supplied by the class) - Word stress in Spanish
- Stress the second to last or last syllable
- Examples:
- When you add a suffix like –able or –mente, the stress goes on the new second to last syllable:
- Clitic pronoun:
- Example: I am reading it.
- When the clitic is added, the stress stays on the old second to last syllable.
- Clitic pronoun:
- Example: I see him.
- Can it be stressed?
- Grammars and Lexicons
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Categories of Words: Parts of Speech - Noun
- Verb
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Determiner (Article)
- Modal ?
Parts of Speech - This boy must seem incredibly stupid to that girl.
- Det Noun Modal Verb Adverb Adjective Prep. Det Noun
Scientific method in linguistics - Theories (hypotheses) must be testable and falsifiable.
- Results must be reproducible.
Reproducible Results: Chomsky, 1957 - The search for rigorous formulation in linguistics has a much more serious motivation than mere concern for logical niceties or the desire to purify well-established methods of linguistic analysis. Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of the inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deeper understanding of the linguistic data. More positively a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed. Obscure and intuition-bound notions can neither lead to absurd conclusions nor provide new and correct ones, and hence they fail to be useful in two important respects.
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