Morphotactics: Basque Auxiliaries and the Structure of Spellout (Hardcover)

1 Introduction: The Structure of Spellout 1.1 Major Claims of This Book 1.2 Distributed Morphology and the Division of Labor in Word Formation 1.2.1 An Overview of the Serial and Modular Components 1.2.2 An Overview of DM Elements and Operations 1.3 The Basque Language 1.3.1 Geographic and Demographic Background 1.3.2 Orthography and Other Conventions in Representing Basque Sentences 1.3.3 Sources of Data 1.4 Brief Overview of Basque Syntax and Morphology 1.4.1 Argument Structure and Case 1.4.2 The Syntax and Morphology of DPs 1.4.3 The Syntax of Auxiliaries: T, C, and Agreement 1.4.4 The Syntax of Auxiliaries and Pronominal Clitics 1.4.5 Other Aspects of Verbal Syntax 1.5 Overview of the Book 2 The Syntax of Cliticization and Agreement 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Clitic Placement 2.2.1 Clitic Generation 2.2.2 Clitic Movement 2.2.3 Alternative Analyses of Cliticization 2.2.4 Summary: The Syntax of Cliticization 2.3 The Person-Case Constraint and Absolutive Promotion 2.3.1 The Person-Case Constraint in Basque 2.3.2 Absolutive Promotion 2.3.3 Movement Verbs and PCC Effects 2.3.4 Other PCC Repairs 2.4 Agreement 2.4.1 Multiple Agree 2.4.2 Agree-Copy 2.4.3 Complementizer Agreement 2.4.4 Summary: The Syntax of Agreement 2.5 Default Agreement 2.6 Complementizers Within the Auxiliary Complex 2.7 Conclusion: Cliticization vs. Agreement 3 The Morphophonology of Basque Finite Auxiliaries 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Vocabulary Insertion 3.2.1 Contextual Restrictions and Linear Adjacency 3.2.2 Competition Among Vocabulary Entries 3.3 Clitic Realization in the Morphophonology 3.3.1 Clitics and Morpheme Order in the Auxiliary 3.3.2 The Realization of Clitics 3.3.3 Dative Clitics and Dative Flags 3.3.4 Plural Fission 3.3.5 On the Absence of Third Person Absolutive Clitics 3.3.6 On Plural Morphology in Basque Finite Verbs 3.4 The Realization of Agreement on T 3.4.1 Allomorphy in the Context of Ergative and Dative Clitics 3.4.2 Lekeitio 3.4.3 Ondarru and Zamudio 3.4.4 Multiple Agreement in Lekeitio 3.4.5 Summary 3.5 The Realization of Auxiliary Morphemes in Previous Accounts 3.6 Phonological Rules 3.6.1 Morpheme-Specific Rules 3.6.2 Syllabification and Related Processes 3.6.3 Other Phonological Processes 3.6.4 Rule Interaction 3.6.5 Rules that Apply Across Word Boundaries 3.6.6 Summary 3.7 Conclusion 4 Deletion Operations Targeting Morphological Markedness 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Distinctions Among Types of Postsyntactic Deletion Operations 4.3 Paradigmatic Markedness 4.3.1 Formal/Colloquial Neutralization 4.3.2 Paradigmatic Impoverishment in First Singular Clitics 4.4 Syntagmatic Markedness 4.4.1 Dissimilatory Deletion 4.4.2 3/3 Effects 4.5 On the Nonlinearity of Impoverishment 4.6 Participant Dissimilation 4.6.1 Ondarru 4.6.2 Zamudio 4.6.3 Other Varieties 4.6.4 On the Potential Diachronic Origins of Impoverishment Rules 4.7 Plural Clitic Impoverishment 4.8 A Concise Summary of All Impoverishment Rules Proposed 4.9 Impoverishment in the Light of Crossmodular Structural Parallelism 5 Linearity-Based Morphotactics 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Generalized Reduplication and Constraints on Morpheme Order 5.2.1 Metathesis and Doubling in Spanish Agreement Morphology 5.2.2 Noninitiality, Metathesis, and Allomorph Selection in Old Irish 5.2.3 Noninitiality in Nonclausal Domains in Amharic and Lithuanian 5.2.4 Nonfinality and Morphological Epenthesis in Italian Infinitives 5.2.5 Multiple Wh-Movement and Constraints on Distance to the Edge 5.2.6 Morpheme-Specific Ordering Constraints in Athapaskan 5.2.7 Interim Conclusion 5.3 The Linearization of Plural Clitics 5.3.1 Absolutive Clitics and Local Plural Metathesis 5.3.2 Long-Distance Plural Metathesis and Doubling 5.3.3 Other Linear Operations Affecting Plu