Some conceptual and empirical issues in linguistic theory : an illustration with pronominal clitics

  • I would like to discuss a few general conceptual issues in linguistic theory, and see how they bear on some empirical facts about pronominal clitics. In particular, I would like to show that the conception of linguistic theory, justified on independent grounds, limits the class of issues and possible explanations for grammatical properties of specific linguistic expressions. I argue that this is not simply a consequence of a specific conception of grammar, conceived of as a system of principles and rules governing language, but has non-trivial empirical ramifications. Pronominal clitics are a good case study, since their grammatical properties bear on a wide range of facts falling under the purview of principles of phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

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Author:Paul Law
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-307803
URL:http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/material/ZASPiL_Volltexte/zp21/zaspil21-law.pdf
ISSN:1435-9588
ISSN:0947-7055
Parent Title (English):Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2001; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 21
Publisher:Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
Place of publication:Berlin
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2013/11/14
Year of first Publication:2001
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2013/11/14
GND Keyword:Sprachtheorie; Grammatiktheorie; Pronomen; Klitisierung; Empirische Linguistik
Volume:21
Page Number:27
First Page:143
Last Page:174
HeBIS-PPN:381257533
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtypologie / Language typology
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtheorie / Theory of language
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte:ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 21 = Papers for Ewald Lang
:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306623
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht